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It began in history as a mere survey line drawn by a pair of English astronomers, marking the border between two American colonies on the fringes of the vast British Empire. But it became far more, defining the contours of a young America struggling to grow and later symbolizing the tensions and fears of a nation torn in half by the issue of slavery. After the guns fell silent, the line entered the mythology of a defeated South. Today, it is an unassuming collection of weathered stone markers, standing along the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, yet it remains one of the most important lines ever drawn in America--the Mason-Dixon Line.
