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Transpeninsular Line Marker

Fenwick Island, DE

An eighteenth-century boundary marker records the survey line drawn across the Delmarva Peninsula before the better-known Mason-Dixon survey. It is a small stone remnant of the complicated colonial boundary dispute that shaped Delaware and Maryland.

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

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Source: history.delaware.gov/2014/07/23/history-was-made-here-fenwick-island-lighthouse/

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