“On October 26 (1929) at 1:00 p.m. Kennebunkport’s Masons had held a ceremony to lay the cornerstone of their new temple. The slab of redstone procured by Brother D. L. Ward from a quarry in Red Stone, New Hampshire, was the same stone used in the Masonic George Washington Memorial Temple in Virginia. A copper box was placed beneath the cornerstone. In the box was a copy of the history of the Arundel Lodge from June 26, 1854, to October 26, 1929, and lists of all members, all deaths, members on the actual date of the cornerstone ceremony, the names of the building committee and the grand officers, and photographs of seventeen members. From this celebratory day the way forward was going to be more challenging than it had been just two days earlier; as a result of the stock market crash, the Lodge would lose its bank loan.”
Joyce Butler in “Kennebunkport, The Evolution of an American Town”