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The corridors fragment tells the Lincoln Highway through the city whole, 1913 to 1928. The second named trail of the same era is tested here: the Dixie Highway, the north–south counterpart, organized by the Dixie Highway Association at Chattanooga on 3 April 1915, its route announced on 22 May 1915. The Dixie's Michigan loop ran from Toledo through South Bend and north to Mackinaw City and Detroit; its main line entered Indiana just north of South Bend on what is now US 31 and followed the Michigan Road from South Bend to Indianapolis. Its county course thus stayed on the Michigan Road corridor, some five miles west of Mishawaka at the nearest, and the junction of the two named trails is a South Bend corner: the Indiana Historical Bureau's marker 71.2010.1, installed in 2010 at Michigan and Washington Streets in South Bend, marks where the Lincoln and Dixie highways intersected. The trail's name survives on the county's map at Roseland, the small town between South Bend and the state line, whose north–south street is Dixie Way still. For Mishawaka the Dixie Highway is therefore a feeder in the exact sense the checklist means: it never crossed the city's ground, laid no street here, and left no name here — but the north–south traffic it organized reached Mishawaka by turning east on the Lincoln Highway at South Bend, and the two trails together made the cross the region's roads still follow. The named-trail era thus prints whole for this city: one trail through its streets, told in the corridors fragment; the second tested, coursed, and found to run at feeder distance, with its marker and its surviving street name both across the township line.