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JEFFERSON Pier near the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
Two previous Washington meridians were transitory: the first was a suggestion by Pierre Charles L'Enfant that the meridian be one mile east of the Capitol, the second was a meridian surveyed through the Capitol by Andrew Ellicott in 1793 at the direction of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson. All city streets in L'Enfant's plan of Washington were oriented to the Capitol. Jefferson wished for the United States to become scientifically as well as politically independent from Europe, so he wished for the new national capital itself to be a new "first meridian". It is not known why he requested a meridian through the President's House (White House) in 1804 when he had already requested a meridian through the Capitol eleven years earlier. The meridian of the United States was changed to the center of the small dome of the old Naval Observatory in 1850, and finally replaced by the Greenwich Meridian as the legal prime meridian for both boundaries and navigation in 1912. Source: Wikipedia
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PIER ERECTED DEC 13, 1804 RECOVERED AND RE-ERECTED DEC 2, 1889 Note: The flags visible in the background are among those that encircle the WashingtonMonument | ||||
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