This is a postal history event cover marking the Official Dedication of the New Post Office in Middlebury, Connecticut.
Cancel Date & Location: Postmarked Middlebury, Conn., on December 1, 1962, at 4 PM.
Cachet Design: A black-and-white pictorial cachet illustrating the new post office building. The text notes the dedication date of December 1, 1962, Postmistress Mrs. Mary D. Lawlor, and that the first office was established April 20, 1815.
Postage: U.S. 4c Higher Education commemorative stamp (Sc 1205), tied by a wavy machine cancel.
Addressee: Hand-addressed in blue ink to Oliver T. Clark Jr. of Middlebury, Conn.
Incorporated in 1807, Middlebury was historically a rural New England farming community named for its central location between Waterbury, Southbury, and Woodbury. Over the 19th and 20th centuries, it transitioned into a quiet suburban residential town. It is perhaps best known regionally for Lake Quassapaug and the Quassy Amusement Park. As a small, tight-knit municipality, the opening of a new, modern post office in 1962 represented a significant local civic event for its residents.