[ 10 ] John R. McKay Square

At Junction of Main
and Bank Streets

John R. McKay was born in Wellfleet on February 21, 1892.  He enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War I and died of pneumonia at the Chelsea Naval Hospital in October, 1918.  In 1924 the Town voted unanimously to name the square at the junction of Bank and Main Streets in his honor and appropriated $100 to erect a suitable marker. When the Sparrow residence was torn down to make way for construction of a commercial building, now Wellfleet Marketplace and Cappello’s Country Store, the marker was moved to its present site.