The song "Sailing to Philadelphia" from Mark Knopfler's album of the same name, also has strong references to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book.
Charles Mason, one of the surveyors of America's Mason-Dixon Line, (the other being Jeremiah Dixon), came from here.
These included the astronomers Nicolas-Louis de La Caille, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon and the French writer Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.
Charles Darwin | Charles Dickens | Charles, Prince of Wales | Ray Charles | Charles II of England | Charles I of England | Charles Lindbergh | Charles de Gaulle | Charles II | Charles | Charles I | Prince Charles | Charles V | Perry Mason | Charles Scribner's Sons | Charles Aznavour | Charles University in Prague | Charles Stanley | George Mason University | Charles Bukowski | Charles Mingus | Charles Ives | Charles Bronson | Charles Babbage | Charles III of Spain | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | James Mason | Charles Baudelaire | Charles Sanders Peirce | Charles River |
Votes against conviction: Judges Ward Hunt (Rep.), Lewis B. Woodruff (Rep.), Charles Mason (Rep.), William J. Bacon (Rep.), Thomas W. Clerke and Charles C. Dwight; State Senators Chapman, Banks, Campbell, Hubbard, Humphrey, Kennedy, Mattoon, Morgan, Wicks, Palmer, Parker, Thayer, Van Patten - 19