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Mason-Dixon Line

It's not just a line in a history book, after all!
John and Sandra flank an AT sign on a ridgetop
Entering Pennsylvania at Pen-Mar Park on the state line

Emerging from the woods of Maryland to a pleasant park on a ridgetop, we've crossed the Mason-Dixon Line into Pennsylvania.

And lo and behold, it's real!

Heading north from Pen Mar, the AT follows the grade of an old streetcar line, a respite from the rocks of Maryland. Dad would have loved this discovery.

Sign noting trolley line ran here in the early 1900s