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    Jefferson Pier, Jefferson Stone, or the Jefferson Pier Stone, (pronounced pie-er, like radials of a pie)[citation needed] in Washington, D.C., marks the...
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    from Nicholas King, Surveyor of the City to Thomas Jefferson, October 15, 1804 Survey of Jefferson Pier. 7696.8 feet – 370 feet + 60.6 feet = 7387.4 feet...
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  • Martha Skelton Jefferson (née Wayles; October 30, 1748 – September 6, 1782) was the wife of Thomas Jefferson from 1772 until her death. She served as...
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  • The center of the Jefferson Memorial, completed on the meridian in 1943. The Jefferson Pier. In 1793 Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson surveyed and marked...
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  • Peter Field Jefferson (February 29, 1708 – August 17, 1757) was a planter, cartographer and politician in colonial Virginia best known for being the father...
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    axis of the White House and the Capitol). A small stone obelisk, the Jefferson Pier, replaced the marker in 1804. The plan also proposed the erection of...
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    John Wayles Jefferson (born John Wayles Hemings; May 8, 1835 – June 12, 1892), was an American businessman and Union Army officer in the American Civil...
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    the continent were to be calculated." Instead, in 1804, the Jefferson Stone or Jefferson Pier was placed on the meridian of the White House due west of...
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    Independence was drafted by Thomas Jefferson, and then edited by the Committee of Five, which consisted of Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger...
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  • Randolph Jefferson (October 1, 1755 – August 7, 1815) was the younger brother of Thomas Jefferson, the only male sibling to survive infancy. He was a planter...
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