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The Oddities of a State Border
The oddity on the map of the Middle Atlantic states on the U.S. eastern seaboard goes unnoticed by almost everyone—except surveyors and cartographers. In almost every other instance where a river divides two states, the state border demarcation line is the geographic center of the river. But the Potomac River has—since the English charters that...