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Texas Lodge

lodgeactivenot on UGLE listca-46-texas-lodge

Identity

Abbreviation
unknown
Jurisdiction
US-CA · California
Also operates
unknown
Naming style
F&AM
Claimed tradition
craft lodge under Grand Lodge of California, F. & A.M.
Founded
unknown
Website
https://lodge46.freemason.org/

Public contacts

email: sanjuanbautistatxlodge46@gmail.com personal published by org
email: loren.mckechnie@gmail.com personal published by org

Addresses

physical 407 Second St, San Juan Bautista, CA, 95045
mailing 407 Second St, San Juan Bautista, CA, 95045-0553

Officers (public)

Secretary: Loren McKechnie

Website

Website liveness

live siteWaybackOfficial URLs are kept after they die. Facebook is social, not a replacement site.

Current site
Texas Lodge No. 46 of San Juan Bautista California HTTP 200
Former sites
none recorded
Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/TXlodge/

Public-web footprint

Public-web footprint

Rank #14 worldwide · score 85.6 · high live siteTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.

SignalCount / sourcePts
Own official websiteyes18.0
Pages absorbed2112.0
Distinct hosts68.0
Social accounts58.0
HTTP 200 / 404 (site-like)6 / 08.0
Last verified (site-like)2026-09-20 (0d)6.0
Description corpus chars17159.6
Officers listed publicly12.0
Meeting schedule publishedno0.0
Hall / addressphysical · geocoded8.0
Proceedings / sketches / assertions36.0
Parent GL membership prior (sourced only)none in corpus0.0

formula v1.1 · computed 2026-09-20 · join key lodge UUID b5b1a674-6063-5c4d-b420-d6cd01ea1d48

Lodge lifecycle

Number
46
Status
active
Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge of California, F. & A.M.
Opened
unknown
Closed
unknown
Successor
unknown
Meetings
unknown

Events

No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.

Historical lineage

Charter / constitution / claimed descent. Not recognition.

This body traces through / was chartered by

SourceTargetDatesEvidence
Grand Lodge of California, F. & A.M.charteredTexas Lodgeunknown – unknownSourceautomatically_extracted

Current recognition

Directed edges only. Mutual recognition would appear as two edges.

This organization recognizes

None documented.

Organizations that recognize this one

None documented.

Classifications (attributed)

Exact language from a named body. The database has no is_clandestine flag.

None documented.

No attributed classifications.

Other documented relationships

None documented.

Primary-source corpus

URLs collected about this organization, including directory entries and official pages.

directory entry · locator
Texas Lodge No. 46 — directory

Public directory listing. Status: active. Close date not stated.

first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200

Sourced descriptions

extracted excerptLodgeLocator entity 6 — Grand Lodge of California, F. & A.M.

Texas Lodge No. 46 listed under Grand Lodge of California, F. & A.M. as active at 407 Second St, San Juan Bautista, CA, 95045 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.

historical sketch

Texas Lodge No. 46 of San Juan Bautista California » History of Texas Lodge No.46 of San Juan Bautista California Events News About Join Us PayPal < Back to the lodge History of Texas Lodge No.46 of San Juan Bautista California The Texan Influence © Truitt L Bradly Past Master Tascosa Lodge No 1375 Copyright 2019 Truitt L Bradly The Formation of California’s Texas Lodge No. 46: In the latter stages of the California Gold Rush, a group of Masons petitioned the Grand Lodge of California, Free and Accepted Masons for dispensation to form a Masonic lodge in San Juan Bautista, Monterey County, California with the proposed name to be Texas Lodge. The group of Masons who initiated the petition consisted mostly of Texans, and over forty per cent of those were former members of San Gabriel Lodge No. 89 of Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas.   Who were these men and what was the force urging them to uproot themselves and their families and make the long and difficult journey to California? The formation of San Gabriel Lodge occurred shortly after the Mexican-American War, prior to the annexation of California by the United States of America and the discovery of gold in California. The events leading up to the 1846 declaration of war against Mexico, began with the annexation of Texas by the United States, after which Mexico severed diplomatic relations with the United States in March of 1845. An alleged invasion by the Mexican Army into disputed territory between the Rio

Assertions

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