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Grand Lodge of Texas centrally located in Waco. The Grand Lodge of Texas, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons is the largest of several governing bodies of Freemasonry in the State of Texas, being solely of the Ancients' tradition and descending from the Ancient Grand Lodge of England, founded on 17 June 1751 at the Turk's Head Tavern, Greek Street, Soho, London. [1]
New York Grand Lodge of New York (2) [17] National Compact: United States New York Hiram Grand Lodge [133] [134] United States New York Omega Grand Lodge [1] [135] CLIPSAS United States New York Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New York [10] [136] 1845 [20] 72 5,300 [13] PHCGM, PHA: United States New York Rose of Sharon Grand Lodge [137] [138] Int ...
A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit). Some are large, with thousands of members divided into hundreds of ...
The first documented presence of Freemasonry in New York dates from the mid-1730s, when Daniel Coxe Jr. (1673–1739), was appointed by Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk, the Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England, known to historians as the "Moderns", to act as a Provincial Grand Master for the provinces of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
As each new State or Province came into being, the lodges that had been chartered within its borders gathered together and formed new Grand Lodges. Grand Lodge of Virginia - Est. 1778 [13] Grand Lodge of New York - Est. 1782 (declared itself Independent Grand Lodge on June 6, 1787) [14]
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in North America. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
Served as Grand Master of Georgia in 1789. Visited the Grand Lodge of New York on 24 June 1789. [1] James S. Jackson (1823–1862), congressman from Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Killed in action at the Battle of Perryville. Member of Hopkinsville Lodge No. 37, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. [1]
NRHP-listed [3] The building serves as the headquarters of the Most Worshipful Union Grand Lodge of Florida and Belize (a Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge). [55] 4: Masonic Temple of Citrus Lodge No. 118, F. and A.M. 1910 built 2010 NRHP-listed 111 West Main Street and 95 South Pine Avenue Inverness, Florida: Neoclassical. [3] Vacated by the ...