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Odd Fellows Lodge (Bel Air, Maryland) 1852: 1975 21 Pennsylvania Ave. Bel Air, Maryland: Greek Revival architecture [12] Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Sandy Spring Lodge #6430 1920s: 1308 Olney-Sandy Spring Rd
Odd Fellows (or 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.
Odd Fellows lodges were first documented in 1730 in England from which many organizations emerged. While several unofficial Odd Fellows lodges had existed in New York City sometime in the period 1806 to 1818, the American Odd Fellows is regarded as being founded with Washington Lodge No 1 in Baltimore at the Seven Stars Tavern on April 26, 1819, by Thomas Wildey along with some associates who ...
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 ...
The Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, American Jurisdiction is a jurisdiction of the Grand United Order of Oddfellows in the United States, Jamaica, Canada, South America, and other locations. Since its founding in 1843, its membership has principally included African Americans , due to their being discriminated against in most other fraternal ...
Odd Fellows lodge is a lodge (and/or building) of the Odd Fellows fraternity. As a name, it may refer to: United States. IOOF Lodge (Alton, Kansas), listed on the ...
During these early days, there were a number of disputes and disagreements between the Grand Lodge and the Branches and this led to a special meeting being held, where a number of branches splintered off to form a new Order in 1810 - now better known as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (Manchester Unity) Friendly Society.
It was used for many years as both a church (by multiple denominations) and the local Masonic lodge. By the late 1920s it had been abandoned by all of these users, and was acquired in 1932 by the local chapter of the International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF), which used it as its lodge. [28] The IOOF chapter deeded the building to the city in 2005.