Has anyone been to the Mason-Dixon Monument in SW Delaware?

I may have occasion to go to Delaware this summer and was wondering about this Mason-Dixon Monument called out in the Road Atlas. Have been unable to locate any pic or commentary about it on the internet. It%26#39;s in the SW corner of the state and will be about 100 miles from where I will be, but if it were worth a picture or something, wouldn%26#39;t mind the drive.

Also, anyone have any other suggestions of sites to see in the states surrounding Delaware?

Has anyone been to the Mason-Dixon Monument in SW Delaware?

I think it says a lot that I found only one hit on Google referencing this monument:

';Set in 1768, this is the No.1 Marker of the Mason Dixon Line.';

I%26#39;m a major U.S. history buff, and judging from the one picture I found, I can confidently say that I wouldn%26#39;t drive five minutes out of my way--let alone 100 miles--to see what amounts to a small gravestone:

ironbuttrally.com/images/IBR/1997/97mason.gif

Has anyone been to the Mason-Dixon Monument in SW Delaware?

Hello

I went looking and found the Monument on Friday, November 9th, 2007.

I had been wanting to do this for a few years and I finally got it done!

The large and small stones at the Monument are protected by a locked up area.

However, if I did not know what I was looking for, I would have had no idea what the Monument was.

There is not any kind of information at the site about the Monument.

Bill

So the markers are within a fenced-off area %26amp; can%26#39;t be examined?

No historic plaque or anything? Must be pretty anticlimatic for the few who have searched out this spot!

I have often thought how awkward it must have been for Delawarians during the Civil War...especially those that lived near the MD border, the only place where you had southerners living just to the west and even north of you....it%26#39;s no wonder many were Confederate sympathizers.

Years ago I used to drive past it on the way to work. There was a very plain basic road sign.

It is just behind the Atlantic Coast Inn in Fenwick Island. It can be reached on 146th st in Ocean City. It is also very close to the Fenwick Light House

lucygrl,

The Mason-Dixon Monument is at the site of the start of the original Mason-Dixon line at the southwest corner of Delaware.

While the crownstone by the Fenwick Island Lighthouse is certainly interesting (not to mention along the beaten path given its proximity to the beaches), it%26#39;s actually part of the Transpeninsular Line.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpeninsular_Line

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