A treasure trove of Winfield history was recently discovered in the dilapidated two-story building at 1307 Main, just north of the Dawson Monument Company.

In 1784, Prince Hall and the other Black Masons petitioned for a charter, and they were granted permission to organize African Lodge No. 459 in Boston. Yakima’s lodge was granted ...

Frank Chandler, a leader of the black Masonic group in Delaware, was happy to see mutual recognition granted in his state last month. "The importance of it to me is that this is 2006.

Black Masons, white Masons recognize each other as brothers . JournalNow Staff Nov 23, 2008 Nov 23, 2008 Updated Apr 16, 2021; 0; Milton Fitch ...

On March 28, 1873, representatives from the three Black Masonic lodges met in Little Rock to form a Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons in Arkansas. By the 1880s, a movement began to construct ...

Chartered in 1866, Giblem Lodge is the oldest black Masonic body in Wilmington and the second oldest (after King Solomon Lodge of New Bern) in the state of North Carolina. Among notable members hav… ...

Now numbering 300,000 members across 5,000 lodges worldwide, the Prince Hall Masons, which adopted the founder’s name after his death, became more than a copy of traditional masonry.

Shortly black and white Masons got together in Eldridge, Masonic history repeated itself as 16 white Masons visited Hiram Lodge No. 19, a Prince Hall affiliated lodge in Davenport.

‘Black history is American history’: Restoration efforts underway on Masonic lodge built by formerly enslaved The Ethiopian Star Lodge #308 was first constructed in 1908.

Giblem Lodge number two traces its ancestry to Prince Hall, an African Methodist Episcopal minister hailed as the “father of Black Masonry”. Local masons laid the cornerstone of the Wilmington ...