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Delaware Wedge Plaque

Newark, DE

A small marker recalls the Delaware Wedge, a roughly 800-acre geographic anomaly created by conflicting colonial boundary surveys between Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The oddly shaped tract remained disputed for generations before the boundary was formally settled, turning a tiny roadside plaque into a marker for a surprisingly complicated cartographic problem.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: history.delaware.gov/2023/01/11/delaware-wedge/

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