Subject: Re: roundup of great circle boundaries in the united states
Date: Oct 08, 2000 @ 20:12
Author: Brian Butler ("Brian Butler" <bjbutler@...>)
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Is the "zero mile stone" also called the "Key of Keys?" If so, here
are a couple of pictures Gregg Butler took of it.

http://www.realmbuilder.com/tristate/keyofkeys.html

BJB


> Interestingly however there is an "axis" along a meridian very
nearly
> on the washington meridian formed by the white house on the north,
> and the jefferson memorial on the south and containing in order, the
> "zero mile stone", a monument whose name I cannot recall which lies
> at
> the center of the ellipse, and "the jefferson pier". There is a
> new book just out about the attempts to establish the washington
> meridian by Silvio Bedini, historian emeritus of the Smithsonian.