The article says the South Lawn of the White House but I haven't seen it
yet... Rather.... Never looked!
Bob Danielson
1975 TR6
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org
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From: owner-triumphs@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-triumphs@Autox.Team.Net]
On Behalf Of Terry Smith
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 8:23 PM
To: 'Bob Danielson'; 'Triumph Email List'
Subject: RE: [TR] Zero Milestone - Non LBC - Sort of
Bob,
I'm going to be in Washington in a couple of weeks. Where exactly is the
stone?
Terry Smith, '59 TR3A
New Hampshire, where "Yah cahn't get theah from heah."
>I was reading through Automobile Magazine with the Alfa on the cover
>($200K
for an Alfa?) and there was an article on the birth of our Interstate
Highway system. In the >article they mention the Zero Milestone Marker which
is the point "from which all road distances in the United States and
throughout the Western hemisphere should be >eckoned." For all the times
I've visited DC and walked around the White House and South Lawn I've never
noticed, or maybe realized, what that stone was.
>Anyhow....you can find a good explanation of it here
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/zero.htm
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