Saint Vrain Masonic Lodge #23 A.F & A.M. Longmont Colorado
Saint Vrain Masonic Lodge #23
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 …
CANON CITY, COLORADO Mount Moriah Lodge was first born in the minds of five men riding home from a meeting of El Paso Lodge No. 13 in Colorado Springs. These men were Stephen Frazier and his two sons, Gideon and Reuben, Charles Pauls and Mills Craig. There were only eleven Brethren in Canon City but …