Charles Willson Peale (1741 – 1827) was an American painter who might best be known for paintings like this one, of George Washington:And these, of Lewis and Clark: But what I love about him are his many paintings of children,… Read More
The Mason-Dixon line was created by scientists Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who were surveying the wilderness between Pennsylvania and Maryland to settle a boundary dispute. Later it became the boundary between slave and free states.