Mason-Dixon 250 organizer Pete Zapadka explained the West Virginia roots of the line on WAJR’s Morgantown AM. “West Virginia’s northern border is the Mason-Dixon Line,” he said.

The Mason-Dixon Line is 250 ... stretching from just south of Philadelphia to what is now West Virginia. ... originally came together in 1761 to map the Transit of Venus - making it easier to ...

On, Oct. 9, 1767, Mason and Dixon came upon the Catawba War Path, sometimes called the Iroquois Main Road, which ran from Olean, N.Y., to the Cheat River in what is now West Virginia.

The West Virginia Department of ... West Virginia’s Mountain Lakes Region and areas up to the Mason-Dixon Line are expected to see peak ... W.Va. Tourism releases 2024 fall foliage map, ...

The Mason-Dixon line today is thought of in terms of philosophy, but in Cresap’s day it was about property. Maryland understood its northern reaches to include the city of Philadelphia; ...

Ask a Southerner where the South begins and you might get answers like "where one-syllable words become two or three" or "where the most honored food are grits and gravy." By those measures, the South ...

The proposal to join West Virginia seems destined to go nowhere. But it has tapped into deep-seated feelings of alienation in western Maryland, a mountainous panhandle wedged against the Mason ...

The Mason-Dixon Line is 250 ... stretching from just south of Philadelphia to what is now West Virginia. ... originally came together in 1761 to map the Transit of Venus - making it easier to ...