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to Tiber Creek on the Mall (the creek is no longer there) and a little beyond.
There were two southern markers. The most southern one, beyond Tiber Creek on the Mall, took the form of another stoneobelisk, the same size as the northern obelisk. It lined up, east-west, with the south end of the Capitol and was called the “Capitol Stone.”
The other southern marker, placed a little north of the “Capitol Stone,” was set at the intersection with L’Enfant’s east-west line through the center of the Capitol, keeping to his original idea of having an equestrian statue of George Washington erected at such a north-south, east-west crossing. Because the point was so close to Tiber Creek, its form was different. It took quite a few slabs of stone and a capstone to stabilize it and raise the top so that the Capitol could be seen. This marker received the name “Jefferson Pier,” or “Jefferson Stone” (Figure 3).
The idea of an equestrian statue of George Washington at that intersection was soon forgotten. Instead, in 1833, a gigantic obelisk was planned by the Washington National
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