In downtown Toledo, the streets named for the five Great Lakes and the presidents are easy to suss out: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior run north/south, and Jackson, Adams, Madison, Jefferson, Monroe, and Washington run east/west.
Many communities across the country — Toledo being no exception — have streets named Main, Front, State, Church, Market, Park, and River, all reflecting the geographic area, original purpose, or function of the thoroughfare. Trees, fruits, flowers, states, and directional or navigational terms are also popular.
“Some of it’s obvious,” Gayle Harmon-Hebert, a Toledo librarian, said of streets named for those types of things…