Last year while visiting family in Albion, I discovered a corner (at Erie and Mingo) where the sidewalk had been marked with the names of the intersecting streets. I had never seen anything like it and didn’t see any other similarly marked walks in Albion until now. There was a bit of luck behind this. Normally I take walks at a couple times of day when visiting Albion: either around 5 pm in order to get done before dinner, or at night if I’m looking for Christmas lights. This time it felt too hot yet to go out at 5 and so I waited until after dinner to walk. This resulted in my getting the perfect raking angle of light that causes faint markings to reveal themselves, and I found more of these intersection markings.

This one is at the southwest corner of East Erie and South Huron Streets. “E. Erie St.” was the first one I noticed. It was only after it drew my attention that a closer look also yielded the very faint “S. Huron St.” on the other edge. Each stamp is oriented to parallel the street it names.

Looking north across Erie. Erie’s stamp is on the nearest edge, and Huron’s is on the right edge. Huron is ending here at a T-intersection with Erie.