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In 1933, 26,000 bodies from the Oddfellows Cemetery in San Francisco were moved here. San Francisco had previously passed an ordinance to prohibit the sale of cemetery lots or permit any further burials within the city. Odd Fellows Cemetery (Sonora, California) 1856: Sonora, California: Currently reported in disrepair. [32] Odd Fellows Rest ...
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.
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 ...
The Odd Fellows Cemetery was initially on the outskirts of the growing city of San Francisco, but was closed around 1903 and all bodies were exhumed in the 1930s to make way for new residential neighborhoods. Nearly all traces of the former cemetery, including headstones, were removed at that time. Only the columbarium still stands. Under most ...
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Building is a historic building in San Diego, California. Built in 1882, the Odd Fellows Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is located at 526 Market Street, within the historic Gaslamp Quarter .
Lodge No. 298 Odd Fellows’ members, and the Lizzie Rebekahs, the organization’s female counterpart to the men’s fraternal club, left pieces of their history behind in meeting logs and minute ...
In 1933, the 26,000 buried at the Odd Fellows Cemetery in San Francisco were moved to Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. Portions of the Odd Fellows Cemetery became the Rossi Playground, through W.P.A. labor. [1] A five-acre tract of land was retained for the columbarium and memorial park. [1]
In 1948 the Masons bought out the Odd Fellows. [41] 29: Windsor Masonic Temple: 1898 built 371 Windsor River Road: Windsor, California: Burned in 1905, severely damaged in 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Now a Windsor historical landmark. 30