National Register of Historic Places

Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point

Pentress, Monongalia County, West Virginia
Listed
June 24, 1973
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
73001922

About this property

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, it identifies the terminal station established by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon on Brown's Hill, the westernmost point of the survey by Mason and Dixon, preserved as part of Mason-Dixon Historical Park.The surveyors took astronomical observations and on October 19, 1767, finally established the point on Brown's Hill. Mason and Dixon stopped here and not at the westernmost point of Pennsylvania 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. 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. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

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Pentress, Monongalia County, West Virginia
39.72114, -80.11843

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Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 24, 1973.

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