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Washington Lodge

lodgeactivenot on UGLE listnh-61-washington-lodge

Identity

Abbreviation
unknown
Jurisdiction
US-NH · New Hampshire
Also operates
unknown
Naming style
AF&AM
Claimed tradition
craft lodge under Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, A.F. & A.M.
Founded
unknown
Website
http://www.washingtonlodge61nh.org

Public contacts

email: 061secretary@nhgrandlodge.org public organizational
phone: 603-625-5813 public organizational

Addresses

physical 1505 Elm Street, Manchester, NH, 03101
mailing 1505 Elm Street, Manchester, NH, 03101

Officers (public)

unknown

Website

Website liveness

directory onlyOfficial URLs are kept after they die. Facebook is social, not a replacement site.

Current site
Washington Lodge No. 61 - Welcome HTTP 200
Washington Lodge HTTP unchecked
Former sites
none recorded
Facebook
none in corpus

Public-web footprint

Public-web footprint

Rank #1497 worldwide · score 30.5 · med directory onlyTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.

SignalCount / sourcePts
Own official websiteyes18.0
Pages absorbed25.1
Distinct hosts12.8
Social accounts00.0
HTTP 200 / 404 (site-like)0 / 00.0
Last verified (site-like)never0.0
Description corpus chars2201.7
Officers listed publicly00.0
Meeting schedule publishedno0.0
Hall / addressphysical3.0
Proceedings / sketches / assertions00.0
Parent GL membership prior (sourced only)none in corpus0.0

formula v1 · computed 2026-09-20 · join key lodge UUID 946225bf-eca2-5210-a1cc-e83ce2abfdac

Lodge lifecycle

Number
61
Status
active
Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, A.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 New Hampshire, A.F. & A.M.charteredWashington LodgeunknownunknownSourceautomatically_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.

official website · primary
Washington Lodge

first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified unknown

official website · primary
Washington Lodge No. 61 - Welcome

Washington Lodge No. 61 of the Free and Accepted Masons of New Hampshire

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

directory entry · locator
Washington Lodge No. 61 — 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 29 — Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, A.F. & A.M.

Washington Lodge No. 61 listed under Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, A.F. & A.M. as active at 1505 Elm Street, Manchester, NH, 03101 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.

historical sketch

W61: History - Washington Lodge No. 61 Washington Lodge No. 61 Freemasonry First Step Officers History Dues Affiliate Bodies Trestleboard Contact Us History of Washington Lodge #61 F & AM _ By Elmer D. Goodwin, PM 1957 FOREWORD Two hundred years ago Lord Chesterfield denominated history as “only a heap of confused facts.” He was right, of course, if confusion and facts are all that are offered the student. Emerson saw more truly “There is no history, only biography,” he stated. Masonic history has greatly suffered from the amateur historian who has been meticulous in gathering his “confused heap of facts” and forgetting that the heart of history is men: men’s thoughts, philosophies, morals, beliefs, and acts. The Masonic Service Association in a recent bulletin published the above lines. As an amateur historian we find much food for thought therein. On the first day of January 1857, the MW Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, Alfred Greeley, issued a dispensation to a group of 27 members of Lafayette Lodge No. 41 to organize a second Lodge in the City of Manchester, under the name of Washington Lodge No. 61. This was not the first Lodge in New Hampshire to bear the name of the “Father of his Country.” A charter was issued but a few months after Washington’s death to organize a Lodge in Exeter under the name of Washington Lodge No. 13. It apparently had an uphill passage, for it surrendered its charte

official about

Washington Lodge No. 61 of the Free and Accepted Masons of New Hampshire

Assertions

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