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Odd Fellows Home (Gainesville, Florida) 1893 built Gainesville, Florida "Odd Fellows Home was built in 1893 as a tuberculosis sanatorium for Odd Fellows and Rebekahs. It was subsequently used as a girls school and as the city hospital. In 1914 it became a rest home for aged Odd Fellows and an orphanage. The home was closed in 1966." [15]
Odd Fellows (often incorrectly written as Oddfellows; also Odd Fellowship or Oddfellowship [1]) is an international fraternity consisting of lodges first documented in 1730 in London. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first known lodge was called Loyal Aristarcus Lodge No. 9, suggesting there were earlier ones in the 18th century.
In 1819 a branch of Oddfellowship was introduced into the United States by Thomas Wildey, and remained an organic party of the Manchester Unity until 1843, when it became a separate organization under the name Independent Order of Odd Fellows. By that time there were only four known lodges of Odd Fellows in the United States owing allegiance to ...
By 1987, four were still active: the Odd Fellows, Lizzie Rebekahs, the Masons and the Eastern Star. The Odd Fellows, he said, was the second oldest, behind the Masons.
Kidd Springs Kidd Springs Park Another view of the park, showing the park's lake. Kidd Springs is a neighborhood in the North Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas . James Kidd purchased land in the area in the 1870s which included the spring now bearing his name. It is also home to a park/recreation area of the same name.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows was established in Cuba when Porvenir Lodge no.1 was instituted in Havana on August 26, 1883. More lodges were then instituted the following years. [31] In 2012 there were about 116 Odd Fellows Lodges, 50 Rebekahs Lodges, 33 Encampments, 12 cantons and 2 Junior Lodges, totaling to about 15,000 members in ...
Todd Lerew is curious. He likes lists. And he doesn't like doing things halfway. This is why he collects pictorial maps, why he has visited 248 public libraries in Los Angeles County and 401 of ...
A baseball game at the park Bridge in Reverchon Park in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Texas Steps connecting Reverchon Park to the Katy Trail in Dallas, Texas. Reverchon Park is a public park in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas, Texas. It was named for the French botanist Julien Reverchon. The park lies along Turtle Creek, a tributary of the Trinity ...