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We’re excited to present our most recent Trestleboard. Our monthly Trestleboard includes the most up-to-date information about our lodge. You can download our Trestleboard by clicking the links below:
Trestleboard February 2022 v.1 It is interesting and a little challenging for research purposes that there are always events that our Brothers didn’t record in the Lodge Minutes for one reason or another. For example, the first Elk Grove fire of 1892. This fire which occurred on July 1st destroyed most of Elk Grove […]
Brothers, I have a last minute change for you this month. While putting together the usual recounting of historical information gleaned from the Tiler Register, Minutes and Accounting records I encountered an oddity that I described last month. That is, the existence of multiple copies of Minutes. Again, I have no explanation for this but […]
DUPLICATION OF RECORDS Here is something of a curiosity. Our lodge’s first book of Minutes was started with our first meeting on August 6, 1864 with the final entry on December 27, 1882, creating a span of 18 years and 4 months. This first book of Minutes is identified in our library reference system as […]
FIRST CORNERSTONE The first reference we have of a cornerstone being laid by our lodge brothers is captured in the Minutes of July 29, 1876. “A communication was received from Brother A.J. Melson to lay the corner stone of the M.E. Church at Elk Grove. Moved and seconded that on the 4th of August […]
By November of 1879, Elk Grove Lodge No. 173 had been in existence for over 15 years. During those years we had a small number of Lodge Masters, the first being Brother Anson S. Ferris who served for only 3 months until the end of 1864. As you may remember, Brother Ferris requested a demit […]
Author’s Note We are covering the history of our lodge loosely in chronological order. The last installment of these Chronicles went until March of 1874, just about 10 years after our first meeting as a lodge at Brother Obediah Freeman’s house and just 3 years after we had purchased our first lodge property. By March […]
(Author’s Note) In the last installment of the Chronicles of Elk Grove Lodge, it was mentioned that some time had passed that was unaccounted for in either the Tiler Register or Minutes. We did well up until around 1866 and then we would have a month here or there without any documentation. Then we began […]
From 1864 through 1871 our lodge was gradually growing. As today, Brothers came by way of petitions to receive the degrees of Masonry, and some of those began as visitors later to become affiliates. The total number of petitions received during the 6 ½ year period of this article, was 35. DEMITS In November […]
In the 1850’s Elk Grove began as a stage stop and hotel to provide for the needs of travelers from San Francisco, Sacramento and Stockton. James Watson Hall is credited with the naming of this Hotel and subsequently the town of Elk Grove. According to the Elk Grove Historical Society, Brother Hall became a Freemason […]
Elk Grove Lodge No. 173 was first organized on July 30, 1864 in the home of Obediah Shank Freeman. A few months later, on October 13, 1864, the lodge charter was granted by the Grand Lodge of California. Elk Grove Lodge No. 173 has been in continuous operation with over 150 years of service to […]
