Carroll County's Birthday Celebration

Born as the result of a bitter territorial dispute over royal land grants, the Mason-Dixon Line was surveyed between 1763 and 1767 to settle the boundaries for Pennsylvania and Maryland. After 1820, when the Missouri Compromise created political conditions which made the line important to the history of slavery, it became associated with the division between the free and slave states. Today the line is still seen by many as a symbolic dividing line for regional attitudes and customs. This program explores the story of the line, which runs through our land and our history, along with the perceptions that have developed about the boundary.

Free Admission   

Saturday
January 17, 2015

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Grace Lutheran Church, 21 Carroll Street, Westminster

For more information, contact
the Historical Society of Carroll County at
410-848-6494 or The Historical Society of Carroll County