official website · primary
Bluff City Lodge #71first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200
lodgeactivenot on UGLE listia-71-bluff-city-lodge
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live siteOfficial URLs are kept after they die. Facebook is social, not a replacement site.
Rank #40 worldwide · score 81.2 · high live siteTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.
| Signal | Count / source | Pts |
|---|---|---|
| Own official website | yes | 18.0 |
| Pages absorbed | 7 | 9.6 |
| Distinct hosts | 3 | 8.0 |
| Social accounts | 3 | 8.0 |
| HTTP 200 / 404 (site-like) | 3 / 0 | 8.0 |
| Last verified (site-like) | 2026-09-20 (0d) | 6.0 |
| Description corpus chars | 1717 | 9.6 |
| Officers listed publicly | 0 | 0.0 |
| Meeting schedule published | no | 0.0 |
| Hall / address | physical · geocoded | 8.0 |
| Proceedings / sketches / assertions | 7 | 6.0 |
| Parent GL membership prior (sourced only) | none in corpus | 0.0 |
formula v1.1 · computed 2026-09-20 · join key lodge UUID 3fe0a0ec-c73a-588c-abbe-a8fd5296cc68
No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.
Charter / constitution / claimed descent. Not recognition.
| Source | Target | Dates | Evidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Lodge of Iowa, A.F. & A.M. | chartered | Bluff City Lodge | unknown – unknown | Sourceautomatically_extracted |
Directed edges only. Mutual recognition would appear as two edges.
None documented.
None documented.
Exact language from a named body. The database has no is_clandestine flag.
None documented.
No attributed classifications.
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URLs collected about this organization, including directory entries and official pages.
first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200
first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200
first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200
Public directory listing. Status: active. Close date not stated.
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Bluff City Lodge No. 71 listed under Grand Lodge of Iowa, A.F. & A.M. as active at 130 S 6th St, Council Bluffs, IA, 51501-4249 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.
Bluff City Lodge #71: Lodge History Bluff City Lodge #71 Lodge History In the year 1855, Council Bluffs, City, Iowa, was just a frontier settlement. There were among its residents a number of men who were Masons, members of lodges in their home towns, who were desirous of reactivating their masonry in their new home. These men were the nucleus of the group that met with the intention of organizing a Masonic Lodge in Council Bluffs City. The May 17, 1855 minutes of the Evening Star Lodge at Winterset, Iowa, show that a group of ten Council Bluffs masons appeared before that lodge on that date to apply for a recommendation to the Grand Master of Masons in Iowa for a dispensation to form a Masonic Lodge in Council Bluffs, City, Iowa. These ten men were headed by Brother Leavitt Bowen, an attorney, who was to become the first Worshipful Master of the new Bluff City Lodge No. 71. No information as to his previous Masonic affiliations is known. He did serve as Senior Warden of Nebraska Lodge No. 1 during the time he was Worshipful Master of Bluff City Lodge. At the formation of the Nebraska Grand Lodge in September of 1857, he became the first Deputy Grand Master of that body, although he did not demit from Bluff City Lodge until April of 1859. Brother McMahon, a physician, was the first Bluff City Senior Warden. He was born in Harden County, Kentucky and demitted from Morrison Lodge No. 76 of Elizabethtown, Kentucky where he has been raised on December 22, 1841. Brother Sam
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