There are multiple buildings in DC spelled wrong because Historical Societies won't allow them to fix it. That line doesn't look professional does it? They could have put a display near the stone with the correct information, that's the usual procedure.
You have found a curiosity with this chiseled out line.
Hang on I clicked the footnote from wiki for the reference page and there it says,
Another line, at some time crudely chiseled away except for the last three words, once read "BEING THE CENTRE POINT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA."
This is more like the zero milestone just above it. This has to do with the other day when I was wondering where the + cross point of the centre of the DC diamond shape would be. If you look at all these posts, they can be off by feet. So this actual cross point is a bit in the back yard of the "Organization of American States" to the left of this zero point and Jefferson pier stone line. That OAS building wasn't there though when they built all this. Was some mansion. These guys were off by feet, with a lot of the stones along the way.. so they probably thought this zero milestone line was the + middle.
Let's see this zero milestone compared to the JEfferson pier stone, which was first.
The Jefferson Pier is this odd location compared to the Washinton monument.. it's like to the left of it and a bit up. The pier stone is more that line of the whitehouse.
There are multiple buildings in DC spelled wrong because Historical Societies won't allow them to fix it. That line doesn't look professional does it? They could have put a display near the stone with the correct information, that's the usual procedure.
You have found a curiosity with this chiseled out line.
Hang on I clicked the footnote from wiki for the reference page and there it says,
Another line, at some time crudely chiseled away except for the last three words, once read "BEING THE CENTRE POINT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA."
This is more like the zero milestone just above it. This has to do with the other day when I was wondering where the + cross point of the centre of the DC diamond shape would be. If you look at all these posts, they can be off by feet. So this actual cross point is a bit in the back yard of the "Organization of American States" to the left of this zero point and Jefferson pier stone line. That OAS building wasn't there though when they built all this. Was some mansion. These guys were off by feet, with a lot of the stones along the way.. so they probably thought this zero milestone line was the + middle.
Let's see this zero milestone compared to the JEfferson pier stone, which was first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Pier
Says right on there 1804.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Milestone
Looks like later. 1923.
The Jefferson Pier is this odd location compared to the Washinton monument.. it's like to the left of it and a bit up. The pier stone is more that line of the whitehouse.