Saint Vrain Masonic Lodge #23 A.F & A.M. Longmont Colorado
Saint Vrain Masonic Lodge #23
GREELEY, COLORADO On November 29, 1870, there was granted to a group of Greeley Masons a dispensation to operate a lodge. Some months later, on September 26, 1871, M.W.G.M. Henry M. Teller granted the lodge a charter, which was signed by 30 members. From this humble beginning the lodge membership increased to 663 on November …
FORT COLLINS, COLORADO The first informal meeting of Masons in Fort Collins was in Henry Clay Peterson’s Workshop in 1866. There were many Freemasons in the district prior to that date, but this was the first known meeting in the area. Brother Peterson’s “Work Shop” was the cradle of Masonry in Fort Collins. As a …
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 …
PUEBLO, COLORADO About mid-December of 1867, two Brethren met and examined each other and became convinced that they were Masons. Augustus Bartlett and C. J. Hart then examined other men, assembled a few Masons together and arranged to submit a petition to the Grand Lodge for dispensation for the formation of a new Lodge in …
CHEYENNE, WYOMING During the absence of Grand Master Henry M. Teller during the early part of 1868 Right Worshipful O. A. Whittemore, Deputy Grand Master, granted a dispensation to the brethren of Cheyenne, Dakota Territory, to open a lodge with Brother James Scott, 1865 Master of Golden City, No. 1, as Worshipful Master. On his …