OAK CREEK, COLORADO
In 1886, M.W. Bro. George Wyman regretfully refused permission to form a lodge at Coal Creek believing it was not to the best interest of Freemasonry. However, the following year Grand Master Branch did issue a dispensation to twenty-one brethren at Coal Creek to form a lodge to be known as Eureka Lodge U. D. with Brother George Hadden, Worshipful Master, Brother Henry Wallace, Senior Warden, and Brother Jacob Holland, Junior Warden.
The petition was recommended by Mount Moriah Lodge No.15 of Canon City. The Committee on Returns and Work reported favorably on the work of this Lodge which was five initiated, five passed and five raised.
They were chartered as Eureka Lodge No. 66 with Brother George Hadden, Worshipful Master, Henry Wallace, Senior Warden, and Wm. M. Bridges, Junior Warden. Grand Master Kimball commissioned Past Grand Master J. H. Peabody to constitute Eureka Lodge No. 66 and install its officers. On Saturday morning June 29, 1907 a disastrous fire occurred in the town of Coal Creek which totally destroyed the Lodge Hall, furniture and the charter of Eureka Lodge No. 66. A duplicate charter was issued and a dispensation permitting stated meetings to be held in Rockvale Hall, Rockvale, Fremont County, dispensation to be returned to the Grand Lodge at its annual meeting September 17, 1907.
Present membership is 61
