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The Mason-Dixon Line became famous before the War Between the States as the line between free and slave states. The survey establishing the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary began in 1763, was halted by Indian wars in 1767, continued to the southwest corner in 1782, and was marked in 1784.
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