There is an entire crater on the Moon named after a man who, until 2013, did not have a grave marker. Learn the story of Charles Mason, the man who surveyed the Mason-Dixon line, in this History Left Behind video!
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Media Sources
“Mason and Dixon” (1910). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mason_and_Dixon.png#file.
“North America including the British colonies and the territories of the United States.” (1787). https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3300.ar019100/?r=-0.135,0.162,1.133,0.708,0
“King George II” (1744). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_II_by_Thomas_Hudson.jpg
Benjamin Franklin (1785). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Siffrein_Duplessis_-_Benjamin_Franklin_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg