1st Restoration by: Ozark Culture Club - 1915.
2nd Restoration by: Southwest City Lions Club - 1955

[This marker is the point where the 3 states borders meet.
The top stone is from 1830's and original.
The middle sections was placed in 1915.
The base and divided circle foundation were placed as part of the restoration in 1955.
This point is also the western end of the Mason-Dixon Line.]

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Oklahoma Side, 1907

THIS IS TODAYS AR-MO SOUTHERN BORDER, LEADING TO THIS POINT.
Although the Mason-Dixon line is most commonly associated with the division between the northern and southern (free and slave, respectively) states during the 1800s and American Civil War-era, the line was delineated in the mid-1700s to settle a property dispute. The two surveyors who mapped the line, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, will always be known for their famous boundary.

Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon arrived in Philadelphia in November 1763. Mason was an astronomer who had worked at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich and Dixon was a renowned surveyor. The two had worked together as a team prior to their assignment to the colonies.

After arriving in Philadelphia, their first task was to determine the exact absolute location of Philadelphia. From there, they began to survey the north-south line that divided the Delmarva Peninsula into the Calvert and Penn properties. Only after the Delmarva portion of the line had been completed did the duo move to mark the east-west running line between Pennsylvania and Maryland.

They precisely established the point fifteen miles south of Philadelphia and since the beginning of their line was west of Philadelphia, they had to begin their measurement to the east of the beginning of their line. They erected a limestone benchmark at their point of origin.

Over fifty years later, the boundary between the two states along the Mason-Dixon line came into the spotlight with the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This is the first time the title "Mason-Dixon Line was used in history. The Compromise established a boundary between the slave states of the south and the free states of the north (however its separation of Maryland and Delaware is a bit confusing since Delaware was a slave state that stayed in the Union).

This boundary became referred to as the Mason-Dixon line because it began in the east along the Mason-Dixon line and headed westward to the Ohio River and along the Ohio to its mouth at the Mississippi River and then west along 36 degrees 30 minutes North. THIS IS TODAYS AR-MO SOUTHERN BORDER, LEADING TO THIS POINT.

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Arkansas , 1836

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The Missouri Side, 1821

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Honey Creek is a stream in Dade County in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. It is a tributary of Limestone Creek.

The stream headwaters are at 37°17′43″N 93°50′39″W and the confluence with Limestone Creek is at 37°21′59″N 93°50′29″W.

Honey Creek was named for the honeybees along its course.

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