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Transpeninsular
Line Historical Marker
Location
of sign - At the base of the Fenwick Island, Delaware Light
House
Photo
taken - November 2007
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
Transpeninsular Line
This
stone monument, erected April 26, 1751, marks the eastern end of the
Transpeninsular Line surveyed 1750-1751 by John
Watson
and William Parsons of Pennsylvania and John Emory and Thomas Jones
of Maryland. This line established the east-
west
boundary between Pennsylvania's "Three Lower Counties"
(now Delaware) and the "Colony of Maryland". It
established
the
middle point of the peninsula, 25 miles to the west. The stone
bears the coat of arms of the Calverts on the south side and the
Penns
of the north. It was accepted 1760 and finally ratified 1769
by King George III.
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