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Coordinates: 39°43′16″N 80°7′7″W / 39.72111°N 80.11861°W / 39.72111; -80.11861
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Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point
Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point is located in West Virginia
Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point
Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point is located in the United States
Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point
Location2.25 mi (3.62 km) northeast of Pentress on County Route 39, near Pentress, West Virginia
Coordinates39°43′16″N 80°7′7″W / 39.72111°N 80.11861°W / 39.72111; -80.11861
Area0 acres (0 ha)
Built1883
NRHP reference No.73001922[1]
Added to NRHPJune 25, 1973

Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point is a historic marker located near Core, West Virginia and Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, United States. Located on the boundary between Monongalia County, West Virginia and Greene County, Pennsylvania,[1] it identifies the terminal station established by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon on Brown's Hill. The surveyors took astronomical observations and on October 19, 1767, finally establishing the point on Brown's Hill.[2] The reason behind Mason & Dixon stopping here and not at the western most point of Pennsylvania is because the Native Americans told the surveyors they would not proceed one step further. This was due in part to them just crossing the Catawba Trail.[3] In 1883 Cephas H. Sinclair placed the current stone atop Brown's Hill in the mound left by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in 1767. This stone marks the westernmost point reached by Mason and Dixon in delineating the common boundaries of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia (now West Virginia), and known as the Mason–Dixon line.[4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

The location of the furthest west Mason & Dixon surveyed is preserved by the Mason-Dixon Historical Park.[2]

West Virginia Marker Face
West Virginia Marker Face

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  1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Mason Dixon Historical Park". Mason Dixon Historical Park.
  3. ^ Danson, Edwin (2017). Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America (Revised ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Inc. p. 183. doi:10.1002/9781119246145. ISBN 978-1-119-14187-7.
  4. ^ E.L. Kemp (September 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved August 20, 2011.


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