Close to 900,000 people call Indy home, but that doubles if you take in the entire metropolitan area of Marion County. Straddling the White River, the Crossroads of America is most famous for its Speedway inaugurated in 1911. Located outside the downtown, the Speedway is its own district. Those race cars don’t make it through the downtown district where this cover is found. Its core design borrows from the urban layout devised by Scotsman Alexander Ralston in 1821. Ralston cut his teeth in Washington DC with L’Enfant and Benjamin Banneker and then moved out west to avoid his traitorous relationship with Aaron Burr. The downtown of Indianapolis was designed with the Governor’s mansion at the core with four radiating avenues along with an overlaid cardo and decumanus and four parks similar to William Penn’s plan for Philadelphia. Three of the four avenues remain intact, but the parks have largely been absorbed by built structures. The state house still survives on the decumanus of Market Street, but the mansion is long gone; replaced by the 284’ tall Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Surrounding the core of the cover are squares mimicking the block grid of the city. One square has a familiar shape. Standard narrow typeface describing the function and location of the cover is at the top and bottom and the pickpoints are along the decumanus.