America's civil war Mason Dixon Line still cuts deep

Name: America's civil war Mason Dixon Line still cuts deep
Uploaded: 2011-04-14T03:16:23.000Z
Description: The Mason Dixon Line, the symbolic boundary between northern and southern US states during the civil war, still retains its potency.

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America's most famous boundary is the Mason Dixon Line.

In the Civil War it came to signify the border between North and South as it separated slave-owning Maryland from free Pennsylvania.

The BBC's Zoe Conway visited three businesses operating on the line to find out what it represents today.

US & Canada

14 April 2011