LARAMIE, WYOMING
The Union Pacific railroad platted the townsite of Laramie City in day after the tracks to Laramie were completed the first train unloaded a “strange assortment of humanity and materials” typical of a frontier town.
Within two years 28 Masons petitioned the Grand Lodge of Colorado to establish a regular lodge. Granted dispensation on January 31, 1870, the lodge held 15 stated and 43 called communications, initiated 29, passed and raised 22 before the chartering on September 28, 1870.
Laramie Lodge No. 18 was host when the Grand Lodge of Wyoming was organized by the four lodges in the Territory of Wyoming December 15, 1874. Three of these were Colorado bodies. The other was affiliated with Nebraska.
The new Laramie Lodge No.3 of Wyoming furnished four of the new grand officers.
Finest fraternal relations have always existed between Laramie Masons and their brethren in Colorado. On August 2, 1961, actual centennial of the Grand Lodge of Colorado, a telegram of felicitations was sent to Collins Lodge No. 19 at Fort Co1Iins which was chartered on the same date as Laramie, No. 18.
