Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point

Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	2.25 mi (3.62 km) northeast of Pentress on County Route 39, near Pentress, West Virginia
Coordinates	39°43′16″N80°7′7″W / 39.72111°N 80.11861°W / 39.72111; -80.11861
Area	0 acres (0 ha)
Built	1883
NRHP reference No.	73001922 [1]
Added to NRHP	June 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 westernmost point of the survey by Mason & Dixon, preserved as part of Mason-Dixon Historical Park. ^[2] 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 their Native American guides 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]

West Virginia Marker Face

See also

• Star Gazers' Stone

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "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.