County of Chester recently issued the following announcement.
Town Tours Series: Touring the history of the Welsh Baptist Historic District & the Mason Dixon Line
Saturday, August 21, 2021
In 1681, Charles II granted William Penn the land grant that would become Pennsylvania. Almost immediately, Penn had to deal with the southern border with Maryland, a colony controlled by the Calvert family. Both claims overlapped and were considered disputed territory. Penn adopted a number of strategies to get people on the ground quickly to establish settlements is his name. Among them, the Penny Acre Tract was the first official survey for land in what would become London Britain Township. Nearly six decades later, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed the Mason and Dixon line to establish an accepted border. It was in this context that the Welsh Baptist community established by John Evans in the White Clay Creek valley in c. 1714 grew and flourished for more than a century as a near monoculture.
Date:
August 21, 2021
Time:
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location:
Tri-State Marker PA-MD-DE Boundary
Address:
New London, PA 19360
Link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/town-tours-and-village-walks-guided-tour-tickets-161004860873
Original source can be found here.
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