Letter from H. E. Sargent to Don McKay [1961]
Descriptive Object
Identifier:
OBJ.N.2022.32
Description
A business-formatted typewritten letter from H. E. Sargent to then-president of Old Town's city council Don McKay. Herb Sargent started his construction company out of Alton, Maine in 1926 and by the time the letter was written on May 31, 1961 owned large parcels of land in Old Town. The letter concerns a donation of land off of Oak Street to the city, provided that the people of Old Town voted on June 5th, 1961 to authorize funding for the construction of a new junior high school on that site. The construction was authorized, and Leonard Middle School opened in 1964. This letter was held in the possession of Don McKay's wife Lillian McKay for over sixty years; at the time of donation Lillian was 101. It includes the original mailing envelope, with typewritten addressage and a $0.04 stamp shaped like an oval, on which a cameo in profile of a statesman is embossed.