Historic map marking US North-South divide sells for nearly $1 million

A hand-drawn 1768 map of the Mason-Dixon Line, which came to symbolise the US North-South divide, sold for $950,000.
• Surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon created the map to settle a border dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania.
The line later became associated with the division between free and slave states before the US Civil War in the 19th century.

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