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Welcome - Fort Benning LodgeWelcome to Fort Benning Lodge official website. Home of Fort Benning No 579 F. & A. M.
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directory onlyOfficial URLs are kept after they die. Facebook is social, not a replacement site.
Rank #1518 worldwide · score 30.5 · med directory onlyTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.
| Signal | Count / source | Pts |
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| Own official website | yes | 18.0 |
| Pages absorbed | 2 | 5.1 |
| Distinct hosts | 1 | 2.8 |
| Social accounts | 0 | 0.0 |
| HTTP 200 / 404 (site-like) | 0 / 0 | 0.0 |
| Last verified (site-like) | never | 0.0 |
| Description corpus chars | 218 | 1.6 |
| Officers listed publicly | 0 | 0.0 |
| Meeting schedule published | no | 0.0 |
| Hall / address | physical | 3.0 |
| Proceedings / sketches / assertions | 0 | 0.0 |
| Parent GL membership prior (sourced only) | none in corpus | 0.0 |
formula v1 · computed 2026-09-20 · join key lodge UUID 04dea349-8a2b-5eb5-b935-3f3d20df5a77
No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.
Charter / constitution / claimed descent. Not recognition.
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| Grand Lodge of Georgia, F. & A.M. | chartered | Fort Benning Lodge | unknown – unknown | Sourceautomatically_extracted |
Directed edges only. Mutual recognition would appear as two edges.
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Exact language from a named body. The database has no is_clandestine flag.
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URLs collected about this organization, including directory entries and official pages.
Welcome to Fort Benning Lodge official website. Home of Fort Benning No 579 F. & A. M.
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Public directory listing. Status: active. Close date not stated.
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Fort Benning Lodge No. 579 listed under Grand Lodge of Georgia, F. & A.M. as active at 2304 Fort Benning Rd, Columbus, GA, 31903 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.
History - Past Masters - Fort Benning Lodge Home Officers History - Past Masters Contact us Dues-Donate Calendar Fort Benning Lodge Picture (2024) by WB Bayardo Reyes HISTORICAL FORWORD Congress authorized the establishment of Camp Benning in the fall of 1918. The camp was renamed Fort Benning in 1922. It was two years later that brethren gahtered togethre from various lodges and began organizing for the opening of a new Lodge Charter. During the many years history of this Lodge, Membership has grown from the initial 79 Charter members to a high of 935 in 1969. In todays books, 104 members still active on a standstill with new membership. Our origins James W. Van Deusen Lodge U. D. held its first communication at the old Polo Club, Fort Benning reservation, Georgia on April 21, 1924, under authority of a dispensation granted by the Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Georgia, Free and Accepted Masons. The Lodge was named James Van Deusen, who was the Post Surgeon at the Station Hospital. The records show that there were 58 Masons present at the meeting and 47 of them signified their intention of affiliating with the new Lodge. Edward P. King presided as Master at that meeting, with Joseph Grant acting as Secretary. Labor was carried on under this dispensation until October 28, 1924 when the Grand Lodge of Georgia, Free and Accepted Masons, Granted a Charter under the name of Fort Benning Lodge No. 579, Free and Accepted Masons. The Lodge was consecrated, dedica
Welcome to Fort Benning Lodge official website. Home of Fort Benning No 579 F. & A. M.
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