Recoverable????????????

4.4k · September 11, 2003

Center of Crypt

Center of Grate

DaveD have you seen these two while atop the Dome??

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1803-2003

"LOUSIANA PURCHASE"

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"LEWIS AND CLARK EXPADITION"

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Arkansas Missouri Geocachrs Association

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September 12, 2003

I was the project director for the 1992 survey of the Capitol. I have a very fond memory of myself and another NGS employee lying on our bellies at 1 a.m. one morning, on the floor of the Capitol beneath the rotunda with a piece of string determining the intersection point of the 20 points of the Center of the Crypt (which was where Washington was supposed to be buried), and both of us thinking -- How awesome is this! If you look on the NGS web site under "Products and Services" and then under "Pulbication available on line" you can find the article I wrote about that project -- "Where Freedom Stands."

September 12, 2003

I envy you guys in and around DC. So many cool benchmarks to find!

1.3k · September 12, 2003

kd4adc wrote:

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I envy you guys in and around DC. So many cool benchmarks to find!

Well yes, but remember (a) so many of the really cool ones are out-of-bounds, e.g. the many on the White House grounds, and ( there has been so much sprawl hereabouts that I suspect the DC area has lost proportionately more benchmarks than many other areas.

September 12, 2003

ArtMan is right on re hunting in and around DC. The environment is spectacular as are many of the marks themselves. But access is often restricted and the find rate is low (because the development and renovation rates are high.)

4.4k · September 12, 2003

I was doing some study and seen the marks,Are all these realted to the way the,Ellipse ,Mile Zero and the whole thing is layed out from the Capitol, Triangulation Station to the Washington Monument to the South the Relecting pool to the SE to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. I see a very neat layout from our Forefather Surveyors.

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*GEOTRYAGAIN*

TAKE PRIDE IN AMERICA

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1803-2003

"LOUSIANA PURCHASE"

http://www.lapurchase.org

"LEWIS AND CLARK EXPADITION"

http://lewisclark.geog.missouri.edu/index

Arkansas Missouri Geocachrs Association

http://www.ARK-MOGeocachersAssociatoin@msnusers.com

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ark-Mo-Geocachers

4.4k · October 3, 2003

Got some of them while there.

Washington Monuments,HV4442,AI4425,AI4424,AI4423,HV8076,HV8077Freedom,UA0016,Mile 0,HV1847,Meridian Stone,HV1846,Library of Congress,HV4165,The Ellipse.While making a track of the Ellipse to Mile 0 I was intercepted by the Secret Service we had a nice visit..............

I think I saw DaveD,There were several surveyors leaving the Capitol Building where a lot of consruction is going on at this time.Looked just like the picture of DaveD in the Photo of him Atop the Dome.

I did not get to the others but did find out why the Secret Service was there.

The day before all the Original Documents from our Nations founding were put on display on the Rotunda.

See: http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov The Peoples Vote

The 100 documents that formed the nation

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*GEOTRYAGAIN*

TAKE PRIDE IN AMERICA

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1803-2003

"LOUSIANA PURCHASE"

http://www.lapurchase.org

"LEWIS AND CLARK EXPADITION"