Farmers Lodge

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Current site

Farmers Lodge - Welcome to Farmers Lodge No. 153 HTTP 200

Former sites

none recorded

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/farmerslodge153?sk=photos

Public-web footprint

Rank #51 worldwide · score 82.6 · high live siteTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.

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Number

153

Status

active

Grand Lodge

Grand Lodge of Ohio, F. & A.M.

Opened

unknown

Closed

unknown

Successor

unknown

Meetings

unknown

Events

No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.

Farmers Lodge No. 153 listed under Grand Lodge of Ohio, F. & A.M. as active at 6700 North Street, Granville, Ohio, 43023 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.

Farmers Lodge - Lodge History Search ... Home About Lodge News Officers Current Officers Past Masters Lodge Dignitaries Lodge History Gallery Lodge History The following history of Farmers Lodge No. 153 was prepared by Bros. G. E. Smith P.M., W. L. Pierpont P.M., and W. B. Hoskinson P.M., and read at the Centennial Celebration on September 21, 1947. Through the courtesy of Bro. Hoskinson, P.M., and present Secretary, we are presenting it for our readers as well as a record of this historic Lodge. The Village of Fredonia was laid out by S. Arnold, a member of a Masonic Lodge in the State of New York. His burial is in the old cemetery just west of the village, and the marker on his grave has all the Masonic emblems of the first Three Degrees. We are informed that he was the Great Grandfather of our Brother F. A. Carpenter P.M., on his Mother’s side of the family. The following is the first Minutes of the organization’s proceedings: “At a meeting of Master Masons this day appointed at Fredonia, Ohio; a Dispensation from R.W. Bro. Wm. B. Thrall, G.M. of the Grand Lodge, was presented and read, constituting and establishing a Lodge of Master Masons at this place under the name of Farmer’s Lodge and there upon a Lodge of M.M. was opened in due form. Present were Syene Hale, W.M., T. McClelland, S.W., S. Williard, J.W., and other Brethern not here named. The secretary presented and read the Petitions of the following named persons asking to be admitted into the Lodge: B. G. Carroll,

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