Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route such as a road, railway line, canal or boundary. They can indicate the distance to towns, cities, and other places or landmarks like mileage signs ; or they can give their position on the route relative to some datum location.
Zero Milestone face. Washington DC. Zero Milestone, facing the stone's northwest corner (2010) The Zero Milestone is a zero mile marker monument in Washington, D.C., intended as the initial milestone from which all road distances in the United States should be measured when it was built.
The Mason and Dixon West Line Milestone Markers 76 and 77 are historic objects that are located in Frederick County, Maryland and Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States, near the community of Harney, Maryland. They are two of the original milestones that mark the Mason-Dixon line between the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania. [2]
A highway location marker is the modern-day equivalent of a milestone. Unlike traditional milestones, however, which (as their name suggests) were originally carved from stone and sited at one-mile intervals, modern highway location markers are made from a variety of materials and are almost invariably spaced at intervals of a kilometre or a ...
The boundary markers of the original District of Columbia are the 40 milestones that marked the four lines forming the boundaries between the states of Maryland and Virginia and the square of 100 square miles (259 km 2) of federal territory that became the District of Columbia in 1801 (see: Founding of the District of Columbia).
Kilometre-zero markers (20 P) Pages in category "Milestones" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The 40 surviving milestones were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [1] Massachusetts has a total of 129 surviving milestones including those along the upper Post Road. [ 3 ] The stones are so named, despite having been placed in many different years, because of a 1767 directive of the Province of Massachusetts Bay that ...
Milestone (project management), metaphorically, markers of reaching an identifiable stage in any task or the project Software release life cycle state, see Pre-alpha Developmental milestones , tasks most children can perform at certain ages