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Watson Rd. (Mt. Pleasant), Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. manhole cover

This is nearby the sidewalk stamp featured in the previous blog entry, and was taken on the same walk near my work in Mount Pleasant. It’s on the west side of Watson Road between Preston and Crescent. It got my attention especially because my grandfather had a long and distinguished career with Michigan Consolidated Gas Company in Ann Arbor and Detroit.

As with the Bell System cover, this one bears a name no longer in use. MichCon, as it was commonly known, merged with DTE Energy (or as I knew it when I was young, Detroit Edison) in 2001, and in 2013 its name changed to DTE Gas.

Based on warning markings on it, the pipe seems to be a vent of some kind for the gas utility.
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Watson Rd. (Mt. Pleasant), Lakeshore Construction, 2019

With apologies to those who are here only for Lansing sidewalks, I have been dabbling in some Mount Pleasant sidewalk exploration because I have started taking my daily walks up at work some days. It’s been slim pickings, with very few stamps that I have found near work, mostly Eastlund Concrete. I was pleased to finally run across one for a contractor I haven’t seen before, Lakeshore Construction. The stamp is on the west side of Watson Road between Preston Street and Crescent Drive.

The stamp is a familiar style, a modular format seen in a lot of stamps from the last decade or so. I can tell that Lakeshore Construction is a contractor after my own heart. How do I know? Because their web site’s main image is a closeup of their stamp! The site describes them thusly:

Lakeshore Construction is a full service construction and concrete company specializing in stamped concrete, decorative walkways and patios, driveways, poured concrete walls and foundations. Lakeshore Construction started in 2016 servicing the Mid-Michigan area.

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