I-81 Mason-Dixon Drive By LbNA #14963
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 6, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Hagerstown |
| County: | Washington |
| State: | Maryland |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Hikers & Hounds  |
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| Found by: | Jaxx |
| Last found: | Aug 27, 2008 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Nov 1, 2015 |
NOTE - BOX AT YOUR OWN RISK! THIS BOX IS OFF OF A VERY BUSY INTERSTATE AND YOU MUST PULL OFF TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. IF IT MAKES YOUR NERVOUS, DO NOT SEEK THE BOX! DO NOT EMAIL H&H AND WHINE ABOUT HOW "SCARY" THE BOX WAS. JUST LEAVE IT ALONE.
This is a quick and easy drive by off of Interstate 81 in Maryland, just over the border from Pennsylvania. Box has no ink or pen and is wrapped in camo.
Mason-Dixon Line Drive By Box
Background:
The Mason-Dixon line is the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland (running between lat. 39°43′26.3″N and lat. 39°43′17.6″N), surveyed by the English team of Charles Mason, a mathematician and astronomer, and Jeremiah Dixon, a mathematician and land surveyor, between 1763 and 1767. The ambiguous description of the boundaries in the Maryland and Pennsylvania charters led to a protracted disagreement between the proprietors of the two colonies, the Penns of Pennsylvania and the Calverts of Maryland. The dispute was submitted to the English court of chancery in 1735. A compromise between two families in 1760 resulted in the appointment of Mason and Dixon. By 1767 the surveyors had run their line 244 mi (393km) west from the Delaware border, every fifth milestone bearing the Penn and Calvert arms. The survey was completed to the western limit of Maryland in 1773; in 1779 the line was extended to mark the southern boundary of Pennsylvania with Virginia (present-day West Virginia). Before the Civil War the term "Mason-Dixon Line" popularly designated the boundary dividing the slave states from the free states, and it is still used to distinguish the South from the North.
Box Clues
From I-81 South, as soon as you cross into MD look on your right for the Maryland Veterans Memorial Highway Monument on the right at Mile Marker 11. Pull off on the right at the monument (basically a 4 foot wall with some flags). Face the writing on the monument and notice the large bush to it's right. Past the bush is a thin tree against the fence leaning against another thin tree on the other side of the fence. On the ground behind the thin tree is our Mason - Dixon box.
Please email us at hikers_n_hounds@yahoo.com and let us know what you thought of our box. Thanks!
Hike length: 0.1 miles
This is a quick and easy drive by off of Interstate 81 in Maryland, just over the border from Pennsylvania. Box has no ink or pen and is wrapped in camo.
Mason-Dixon Line Drive By Box
Background:
The Mason-Dixon line is the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland (running between lat. 39°43′26.3″N and lat. 39°43′17.6″N), surveyed by the English team of Charles Mason, a mathematician and astronomer, and Jeremiah Dixon, a mathematician and land surveyor, between 1763 and 1767. The ambiguous description of the boundaries in the Maryland and Pennsylvania charters led to a protracted disagreement between the proprietors of the two colonies, the Penns of Pennsylvania and the Calverts of Maryland. The dispute was submitted to the English court of chancery in 1735. A compromise between two families in 1760 resulted in the appointment of Mason and Dixon. By 1767 the surveyors had run their line 244 mi (393km) west from the Delaware border, every fifth milestone bearing the Penn and Calvert arms. The survey was completed to the western limit of Maryland in 1773; in 1779 the line was extended to mark the southern boundary of Pennsylvania with Virginia (present-day West Virginia). Before the Civil War the term "Mason-Dixon Line" popularly designated the boundary dividing the slave states from the free states, and it is still used to distinguish the South from the North.
Box Clues
From I-81 South, as soon as you cross into MD look on your right for the Maryland Veterans Memorial Highway Monument on the right at Mile Marker 11. Pull off on the right at the monument (basically a 4 foot wall with some flags). Face the writing on the monument and notice the large bush to it's right. Past the bush is a thin tree against the fence leaning against another thin tree on the other side of the fence. On the ground behind the thin tree is our Mason - Dixon box.
Please email us at hikers_n_hounds@yahoo.com and let us know what you thought of our box. Thanks!
Hike length: 0.1 miles