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Location and inscription[edit]

The stone is on the National Mall almost due south of the center of the White House and the midline of 16th Street, NW, about due west of the center of the United States Capitol building, almost due north of the center of the Jefferson Memorial and 391 ft (119 m) WNW of the center of the Washington Monument.^{[2][3][note 1]}

The monument is a 2.25-by-2.25-foot (0.7 m × 0.7 m), 3-foot (0.9 m) tall granitic monolith with crossing longitudinal and latitudinal lines engraved on its upper surface and with a defaced inscription engraved on its west face that states:

Position of Jefferson
Pier erected December 18, 1804.
Recovered and Re-erected
December 2, 1889.
[fifth line chiseled out]
District of Columbia^[3][4]

The chiseled-out fifth line reportedly once incorrectly stated: "BEING THE CENTER POINT OF THE".^[5][