Dividing Line

Dividing Line is a North Carolina historical marker in Currituck County, dedicated 1938.

NC 615 on Knotts Island

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Commissioners drove the first stake for the Virginia-Carolina boundary, Mar. 18, 1728, three miles N.E., across Currituck Sound.

Maps this old were drawn largely by eye, so places on them can sit miles from where they really are. The pin is ours and marks the marker's location today.

TodayHistorical map

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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

Historical maps covering this location

1670 · Virginia and Maryland As it is planted and Inhabited this present Year 1670 ... (John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)
1708 · Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1733 · A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1795 · North-Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1916 · Back Bay, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

North-Carolina, 1795, covering the location of Dividing Line, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — North-Carolina, 1795, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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This marker is part of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, run by the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources jointly with the N.C. Department of Transportation. Marker texts and locations are the program's own, as the Department publishes them.

Dividing Line

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