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	Transpeninsular Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Transpeninsular Line and the "Tangent Line" portion of the Mason-Dixon Line
		The Transpeninsular Line (at approximately 38° 27' N) is a surveyed line, the eastern half of which forms the north-south border between Delaware and Maryland.
		The line was accepted by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon (of Mason-Dixon line fame) in 1763 when they were engaged to determine the borders between Maryland and the grants to William Penn (Pennsylvania and Delaware).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transpeninsular_Line (402 words)

	Wikinfo \| Transpeninsular Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Transpeninsular Line (38° 27' N) is a surveyed line that forms the north-south border between Delaware and Maryland.
		In 1751, a line was surveyed straight across the Delmarva Peninsula beginning at what they called Cape Henlopen, near Lewes, Delaware, which was to be the southern boundary of Delaware.
		A Transpeninsular Line marker can be found near the Fenwick Island Lighthouse, at the northern boundary of Ocean City, Maryland.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Transpeninsular_Line (249 words)

	Delaware Geological Survey
		They are the east-west boundary, or Transpeninsular Line; the north-south boundary, or the Tangent Line, Arc, and North lines;; the Delaware-Pennsylvania boundary, including the Top of the Wedge Line and the 12-mile Circle; and the Delaware-New Jersey boundary including the 1934 Mean Low Water Line and the Delaware Bay Line.
		The Arc Line is a small portion of the 12-mile Circle that extends west of a line that would run due north of the Tangent Stone.
		This is the point where the Arc Line intersects the due north line extending from the Tangent Stone.
	www.udel.edu /dgs/Publications/pubsonline/info6.html (1177 words)

	Chapter 24: The Chinese Spring Offensive Battle for Seoul
		The new line to be occupied by Almond's forces looped northeast from a junction with the 1st Marine Division along the Soyang to a point two miles below Yanggu, then fell off to the southeast to the existing position of the ROK 5th Division below Inje.
		Implicit in Van Fleet's insistence on thorough coordination between corps during the withdrawal to the new line was that its occupation would be governed by the movement of the I Corps against the continuing enemy pressure on its front.
		Van Fleet's assignment of corps sectors along the line made the IX Corps responsible for defending the Pukhan and Han corridors; consequently, the 24th Division, currently located directly above that area, was to pass to IX Corps control on the 27th.
	www.kmike.com /EbbAndFlow/Ch24.htm (3873 words)

	Mason-Dixon Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The East-West line dividing Maryland and Delaware is called the Transpeninsular Line and was calculated from the easternmost point of the Delmarva peninsula due west to the Chesapeake Bay in 1751 by King Charles II, eleven years before the Mason-Dixon line began creation.
		The object of the Transpeninsular Line was to establish a southern border of Delaware (the three lower counties of Pennsylvania).
		Nowadays, the name Mason-Dixon Line is used colloquially to mean the boundary between the Northern and Southern states, or between the Union and the Confederacy during the American Civil War, or between the free states and the slave states.
	freespace.virgin.net /john.cletheroe/usa_can/usa/mas_dix.htm (4994 words)

	A Brief History of the Mason-Dixon Surveys
		The commissioners hired local surveyors to mark an east-west transpeninsular line from Fenwick Island to the Chesapeake in 1750-51, and then determine the middle point of this line, which would mark the southwest corner of the Three Lower Counties.
		Since the tangency line runs slightly west of true north, the tangent point lies south and slightly east of the arc’s westernmost point (Figure 6).
		After joining the tangency line perpendicularly to the twelve-mile radius line from New Castle in August 1764, they returned south to the middle point, checking and correcting marks as they went. On this re-check, their final error at the middle point, after 82 miles, was 26 inches.
	www.udel.edu /johnmack/mason_dixon (4723 words)

	Coastal Point \| Mason-Dixon Line myth exposed at beach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Transpeninsular Line was surveyed in 1750, to establish the boundary that runs east-west between Delaware and Maryland.
		The line begins at the southeast corner of Delaware and extends 35 miles along its southern border, dividing several towns between the two states.
		The Mason-Dixon Line was surveyed 11 years after the Transpeninsular Line, by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, to settle a land dispute.
	www.thecoastalpoint.com /archives/20050708/masondixonlinemythexposedatbeach.html (398 words)

	Ensenada Baja California - Transpeninsular highway
		Highway 1 - aka Mex 1, the Transpeninsular Highway, or, to locals, simply La Carretera - runs the entire length of the peninsula, traversing some 1,060 miles from Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas.
		Most of it is composed of a double yellow line, and it should be.
		The inconsistency of the center line has led to a curious Baja custom.
	www.baja-relocation.com /transpeninsular.htm (1438 words)

	History of U.S. Naval Operations, Korea: Chapter 10, Part 2
		In early March the capacity of the west coast rail line was estimated at between 500 and 1,000 tons per day, and that of the east coast railroad at about 500, while highways in the west and east were capable of transporting 1,000 and 500 tons per day respectively.
		For some time intelligence had indicated that the Chinese intended to hold at the dividing line, while preparing for a major offensive in May. Since there was plenty of evidence, not least the Communist diligence in bridge repair, to show that these preparations were being earnestly pressed, this intelligence was taken seriously.
		The difficulties of successfully interdicting the supply lines of an army whose logistic requirements per man were about a sixth of those of U.S. forces had reinforced the lesson, which promised also to apply to action between naval air and gunnery forces and fleets of wooden junks.
	www.history.navy.mil /books/field/ch10b.htm (5677 words)

	Fenwick Island, Delaware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Transpeninsular Line, which was surveyed in 1750-1751, begins in Fenwick.
		Twenty miles from Fenwick is the marker at Line Methodist Church on Route 54 southwest of Gumboro.
		It is here that the Transpeninsular Line meets the north-south line surveyed by the English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon.
	www.shorenetwork.com /towns/fenwick.htm (2946 words)

	Wikinfo \| Delmarva Peninsula
		The border between Maryland and Delaware consists of the east-west Transpeninsular Line and the perpendicular north-south portion of the Mason-Dixon line extending up to the Twelve-Mile Circle, which forms Delaware's border with Pennsylvania.
		The border between Maryland and Virginia on the Peninsula is a surveyed line from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pocomoke River and then follows the river to the Chesapeake Bay.
		A favorite sight on the Atlantic side of the peninsula is Chincoteague Island of Virginia, which together with Assateague Island of Maryland, is noted for its herd of wild ponies accustomed to the seashore, as described by Marguerite Henry in Misty of Chincoteague.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Delmarva_Peninsula (710 words)

	Untitled Document
		This is actually not true, as Mason and Dixon’s line started at the southwest corner of Delaware, the halfway point of the so-called Transpeninsular Line, which ran westward from the easternmost point of land on the peninsula.
		The 1 mile part that is not part of the circle is an interesting curiosity with a colorful history involving kings, drunks, criminals, family rivalries, and two astronomers-surveyors named Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon.
		Apparently, the MD-DE line was to be a tangent to the Arc running N-S. Mason and Dixon grappled with this because the tri-point is not (though it’s darn close) due west of Newcastle’s courthouse (which it would need to be to make the boundary a N-S tangent).
	www.public.asu.edu /~redsall/triplepoints/other/arccorner.htm (480 words)

	Fenwick Island, Delaware Beach Information
		This is in contradistinction to the wild atmosphere of Dewey Beach and the cosmopolitan bustle of Rehoboth Beach.
		Fenwick Island, however, is somewhat less "quiet" than "the Bethanies" because it is immediately across the state line from Ocean City, Maryland, which has a well-deserved reputation as a wild place.
		8.5% of the population and 3.3% of families are below the poverty line.
	www.tidewaterrealty.com /beach-info/fenwick-island-delaware.html (621 words)

	"MASDIX Tangent Line Mile 0, 1765, Delaware-Maryland" Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Tangent Line was marked with 84 historical stones (sharing two with the Arc Line and one with the Transpeninsular Line).
		The Tangent Line was to be run due north (the “North Line”) from the Tangent Point until it intersected a line of constant latitude (the “West Line”) fifteen miles south of the most southerly point in Philadelphia,
		Along the line, the five-mile intervals are marked with stones that have the Penn and Calvert armorial crests on the east and west faces, respectively.
	www.waymarking.com /waymarks/details.aspx?f=-1&WMGUID=2fa058d9-fd17-413e-a0a7-c8a500d6c734 (1845 words)

	Mason-Dixon line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As part of the settlement, the Penns and Calverts commissioned the English team of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to survey the newly established boundaries between the Province of Pennsylvania, the Province of Maryland, Delaware Colony and parts of Colony and Old Dominion of Virginia.
		The states shown in dark red are usually thought of as part of the Southern United States, while all or portions of the striped states are only sometimes considered part of it.
		The popular song "Are You From Dixie?" written by Jack Yellen and George L. Cobb in 1915 and recorded by many country artists over the years, including the Blue Sky Boys in the 1930's and Jerry Reed more recently, references some states south of the Mason-Dixon-Line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mason-Dixon_line (2172 words)

	Counteroffensive in the Ardennes
		Counting on the defensive strength of the terrain, General Bradley was holding his line in the Ardennes with minimum forces.
		So vital appeard the retention of control of the Baltic Sea coast to Doenitz that he persuaded Hitler, against the sound advice of the Army's Chief of Staff to hold on to this northern sector of the Eastern front at the extreme risk of strategic breakthrough in the weakened center to the heart of Germany.
		In September the breakdown of transportation, which later was to deprive the German high command of the advantage of interior lines, was still a dreaded specter.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/70-7_20.htm (6099 words)

	page1 of feb 2002 newsletter
		The zenith sector is analogous to a plumb bob with a telescope measuring a star’s declination from the zenith.
		Since the beginning of their east-west line would be west of Philadelphia, they had to begin their measurements to the east of the east-west line.
		The vertical line is the border between Delaware and Maryland and is called the Transpeninsular Line.
	www.delmarvastargazers.org /newsletter/feb02/page1.html (2406 words)

	Lewes Historical Society - Archival Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A boundary line based on the charter's parameters can be clearly seen on the map of John Ogilby, Noua Terrae-Mariae tabula (Figure 1), and the map drawn by Jerome Hawley and John Lewger Noua Terrae-Mariae tabula (Figure 2).
		By the terms of the agreement of 1732, the Transpeninsular Line was to begin at Cape Henlopen, and a controversy now arose about the true location of that place.
		The matter in dispute was referred to the Lord Chancellor, who decided that the respective parties should abide by the agreement that fixed the beginning of the line at the exterior cape on Fenwick's Island.
	www.historiclewes.org /histonline/papers/capedispute.html (4327 words)

	A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SURVEY OF THE TRANSPENNINSULAR LINE
		Second, a due east and west line was then to be drawn across the peninsula from the eastern most part of Cape Henlopen to the Chesapeake Bay, from the middle of which a straight line was to be run in a northerly direction so as to form a tangent to the circular line.
		On an other occasion, the cabin in which they were lodging caught fire and they had a narrow escape from death, one of them losing his shoes which were burned to a crisp, from which we are to infer that their loss was a more serious affair than it would be at the present time.
		However, after much discussion and wrangling, they began the survey of the line, which they traced for a few miles but on the 8th of January, 1751, were obliged to quit because the swamps and lowlands were covered with ice, which made it impossible to continue the work.
	www.mindspring.com /~cannicello/_wsn/page4.html (1815 words)

	Delaware 54: Mason-Dixon Marker Scenic Drive - Best Roads - Car and Driver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This nifty little road zigzags across the very bottom (and widest part) of the state to the state line west of Delmar, 32 miles away.
		Particularly appealing to history buffs, the route traces the Transpeninsular Line to the first marker set by surveyors Mason and Dixon between 1764 and 1767.
		The milestone marker is the endpoint of the Transpeninsular Line, a 70-mile-long line connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay, which was surveyed in 1750-51.
	www.caranddriver.com /default.asp?section_id=48&br=r&s=DE&road=16 (288 words)

	Lowest Point in Delaware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Speaking of the Marlyand-Delaware state line, this southern edge of Delaware that we were next to, is half of the Transpeninsular Line.
		The Middle Point of the line marks the southwestern corner of Delaware as well as one end of the Mason-Dixon Line, which extend northward dividing Maryland from Delaware before hanging a left to divide Maryland from Pennsylvania.
		The Middle Point of the Transpeninsular Line and one end of the Mason-Dixon Line.
	www.unc.edu /~echoate/highestlowest/DElow.html (568 words)

	P'unggye-yok, Kilju
		The east coast rail line is joined at this point by another line originating from the northwest out of Manchuria.
		In the west the American mission of interdicting these lines was assumed by Bomber Command; the eastern rail and road lines, more distant from UN bases, became the responsibility of the Navy.
		Eight miles southwest of Kilchu the rail line, tunnelling through the hills, emerges briefly to span a gully and then disappears again underground.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/dprk/kilju.htm (2435 words)

	History of U.S. Naval Operations, Korea: Chapter 10, Part 3
		That the enemy, after the events of the previous autumn, was fully aware of the amphibious capabilities of the United States Navy was unquestionable: information from various sources indicated that special pains were taken to keep track of the movements of the Marine Division.
		But with the Marines in the line, and given the slow reaction time of the Communist armies, there remained the question of whether much was actually accomplished.
		On 31 May the division commander made the inadequacies of the situation the subject of an official report to X Corps, and such was the feeling within the division as to bring an investigation by the Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force Pacific, once again in Korea on an inspection tour.
	www.history.navy.mil /books/field/ch10c.htm (3739 words)

	Photos of Witness Posts and Survey Marks
		This stone was set by Mason and Dixon in 1765 during their survey of the Tangent Line (western boundary of Delaware).
		This is the 20-mile boundary monument stone from the Transpeninsular Line (or TPL - the southern boundary of Delaware with Maryland).
		The western end of the TP Line (Mile 35) served as the southern starting point for the Delaware portion of the Mason-Dixon Line in 1765.
	www.unm.edu /~creelbm/pages/benchmark/benchmarks_ancient.html (1460 words)

	Larry's Lights Fenwick Island, DE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The photos on this page are from both sides of the state line.
		A "transpeninsular marker" sits right in front of the lighthouse.
		This marker was used as the starting point when Mason and Dixon mapped their famous line separating the North and the South.
	home.comcast.net /~larrylights/Delaware/fenwickisland.htm (305 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The legal battles were settled by the heirs agreeing to a survey -- which resulted in the Mason-Dixon line, surveyed by Charles Mason and
		Part of the Line now forms the east-west boundary between Delaware and Maryland, and part of the north-south boundry between
		The Wedge was in dispute up till 1921), and some 80 of their original limestone markers remain.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Delaware.html (1149 words)

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