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.