Looking for historical information

Beathard

Premium Member

• May 23, 2011

• #1

I am currently researching the following lodges:
Bastrop #58
Gamble #244
Red Rock #310
Mina #1456
if you have any information on them please help. I am completing a research paper and information is drying up. Especially on Bastrop and Red Rock.

Thanks in advance.

 

Beathard

Premium Member

• May 27, 2011

• #2

Anybody hear of an old lodge called Perryville located just south of Elgin? Would have been in the mid 1800s.

 

Brent Heilman

Premium Member

• May 27, 2011

• #3

Elgin? Where exactly is that?

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Beathard

Premium Member

• May 27, 2011

• #4

20 miles east of Austin, TX

 

Brent Heilman

Premium Member

• May 28, 2011

• #5

Ah. I am pretty familiar with a lot of central and south Texas towns but that is one I had never heard of.

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Beathard

Premium Member

• May 28, 2011

• #6

The town was starting to be prosperous until the railroad went through Elgin, a few miles north. Then it just disappeared.

 

Beathard

Premium Member

• May 31, 2011

• #7

I answered my own question... Perryville changed its name to Elgin Lodge. Here is the information of the Historical Marker: "Chartered June 18, 1870, as Perryville Lodge No. 328, at Perryville (or Hogeye), about 2.5 miles south of here. Removed to Elgin in 1877, lodge was renamed in 1901. Its first two Masonic halls were used jointly with public schools. McDade Lodge No. 664 merged with Elgin Lodge in 1934."

 

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kenlew25

Registered User

• Jul 5, 2011

• #8

Greetings....Who was the very first WM in our History?

 

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Lordzum

Registered User

• Jul 8, 2011

• #9

kenlew25 said:

Greetings....Who was the very first WM in our History?

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Anson Jones in Texas

 

K.S.

Registered User

• Oct 6, 2011

• #10

Clovis lodge #417, in California just celebrated 100 years recently. (A little FYI)