It was only some 15 to 20 years ago that researchers were getting excited about being able to access the decennial census data on the World Wide Web. This digital information was going to make Investigations of the past so much easier as the e-schedules would be text searchable and the entire universe of census…
Category: Maryland
Interest in History of the Mason Dixon Line Grows as 250th Anniversary Nears
On the eve of the 250 anniversary of the Mason Dixon Line I have been doing a number of talks about the history of this famous boundary. To end a boundary dispute between the Penns and Calvert (the proprietors of the British colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania) it was surveyed in the 1760s. Delaware was part…