Retracing Mason and Dixon
The Brandywine Valley has more historic significance than just the Battle of Brandywine in 1777. It’s also where surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon made the astronomical calculations needed for their namesake Mason-Dixon Line. Members of the Surveyors Historical Society came to Chester County to honor that fact during their 2013 rendezvous by driving a spike into Star Gazer Road in Newlin Township to mark…