The nearby Mel-Tan neighborhood developed its marker after many other neighborhoods had established a theme. Inez Ford came up with ideas for the Mel-Tan design and presented them to the neighborhood association.

"I thought of a bird or a butterfly," Ford said. "They liked the bird."

The Perkins neighborhood chose a schoolhouse as its logo, commemorating education and the elementary school named for George Wesley Perkins, principal of Gibbs High School from 1938 to 1946, said Barbara Lewis of the Perkins Neighborhood Association.