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Andrew Ellicott, the surveyor who worked with George Washington and designer Pierre L'Enfant to lay out the District of Columbia, established the American meridian along the center of 16th Street. At right is Ellicott's 1792 drawing of the District of Columbia based on L'Enfant's plan.
Today this American meridian is commemorated in the park by finials on the Euclid Street fence posts and a plaque at the 16th Street entrance. This plaque was presented by the American Daughters of the American Revolution to memorialize the location of the original marker. |