Dunkard Creek

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Dunkard Creek is a stream that flows through Greene County, Pennsylvania and Monongalia County, West Virginia near the towns of Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, and Blacksville, West Virginia. It flows into the Monongahela River near Dunkard, Pennsylvania, approximately three miles north of the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border.

Mason-Dixon Historical Park is located on the banks of Dunkard Creek in an area where the creek crosses the border three times in less than one mile. The park grounds include Brown's Hill, the westernmost site from which Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon made astronomical observations during the original survey of the Pennsylvania-Maryland border in 1767.[1]

The creek is named for members of the Dunkard sect, a pacifist, nonconformist group of Christians who settled in the region during the 1700s.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Cope, Thomas D. "Degrees Along the West Line, the Parallel Between Maryland and Pennsylvania." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 93 (May, 1949). p 129.


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