Name: Cheslen Preserve and Stargazer Stone 10 AM Start
Start: 2024-11-16T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-16T12:30:00-05:00

Cheslen Preserve and Stargazer Stone.
Hike starts at 10:00 am.
Please plan to arrive a few minutes early

GPS
n39.92122 w75.72855

https://natlands.org/cheslen-preserve/

Update on trail length.
We will hike out to the star gazer stone and then do the Yellow trail.
The hike out to the Stargazer Stone and back will be about 4 miles.
If you want to do the Yellow Trail it will be an additional 2.5 miles.
You can do one or both.

This is where the surveying team of Mason Dixon started their survey for the historic east/west Line

Star Gazers' Stone marks the site of a temporary observatory established in January 1764 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon which they used in their survey of the Mason-Dixon line through the four-and-a-half-year-long survey. Selected to be about 31 miles (50 km) west of the then southernmost point in Philadelphia, the observatory was used to determine the precise latitude of its location. The latitude of the Maryland-Pennsylvania border was then set to be 15 miles (24.1 km) south of that point landing in Newark Delaware. The stone, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 1985.

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