Subject: Re: depa arc & wedge<br/>
Date: Sep 27, 2000 @ 21:38<br/>
Author: Bill Hanrahan (&quot;Bill Hanrahan&quot; &lt;hanrahan@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1734502856">The following comment was taken from the sci.engr.surveying newsgroup:<br/>
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&quot;Having grown up in DE, the center of the curved border is the state <br/>
house in New<br/>
Castle DE.  I don&#39;t think it was surveyed by Mason & Dixon...but I <br/>
don&#39;t recall who<br/>
surveyed it originally.  The horizontal line between MD and PA was <br/>
done by Mason &<br/>
Dixon.  And I think Mason & Dixon did the vertical line between MD <br/>
and DE.<br/>
<br/>
The interesting story is that the curved border at the top of DE and <br/>
the straight<br/>
line between MD and PA and the straight line between MD and DE were <br/>
supposed to<br/>
meet at one point.  They didn&#39;t and until the early part of this <br/>
century, the piece<br/>
enclosed by the curved and straight lines, &quot;the wedge&quot; did not belong <br/>
to any<br/>
state.  So, if you were wanted for justice, you could hide out in this<br/>
approximately one sq mile area and be untouchable.  DE finally <br/>
annexed the wedge in<br/>
about 1920, which is why the border of DE is circular curved at top, <br/>
goes<br/>
horizontal for a small bit, and then goes vertical along a N-S <br/>
boundary of MD.<br/>
<br/>
The state house in New Castle tells this story when you take a tour <br/>
of it.<br/>
<br/>
Martina L. Moore, PE<br/>
CM Group, Inc.&quot;</div>