Subject: key of keys was Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: roundup of great circle boundaries in the united states
Date: Oct 12, 2000 @ 19:30
Author: michael donner (michael donner <m@...>)
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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.
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><http://www.realmbuilder.com/tristate/keyofkeys.html>
>http://www.realmbuilder.com/tristate/keyofkeys.html
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>BJB
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>> 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.