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Detail of sketch by Seth Eastham, 1851, courtesy Boston Museum of Fine Arts Figure 1: The Jefferson Stone, poor baby, in the middle foreground in 1851. The Washington Monument is under construction on the right, and the Smithsonian Castle is in the left background. Boatmen on old Tiber Creek, and its replacement canal, used the Jefferson Stone to tie up their scows and barges.

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