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Home | Newtown Lodge 427We are a lodge of Pennsylvania Freemasons dedicated to improving our community and making good men better.
first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200
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live siteOfficial URLs are kept after they die. Facebook is social, not a replacement site.
Rank #64 worldwide · score 83.3 · 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 | 12 | 11.8 |
| Distinct hosts | 2 | 5.6 |
| Social accounts | 1 | 3.0 |
| HTTP 200 / 404 (site-like) | 10 / 0 | 8.0 |
| Last verified (site-like) | 2026-09-20 (0d) | 6.0 |
| Description corpus chars | 1907 | 9.8 |
| Officers listed publicly | 7 | 6.0 |
| Meeting schedule published | yes | 6.0 |
| Hall / address | physical | 3.0 |
| Proceedings / sketches / assertions | 13 | 6.0 |
| Parent GL membership prior (sourced only) | none in corpus | 0.0 |
formula v1.1 · computed 2026-09-20 · join key lodge UUID 2f246b22-4bd3-5cbd-bb98-ee4a1b54de58
No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.
Charter / constitution / claimed descent. Not recognition.
| Source | Target | Dates | Evidence | |
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| Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania | chartered | Newtown 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.
None documented.
URLs collected about this organization, including directory entries and official pages.
We are a lodge of Pennsylvania Freemasons dedicated to improving our community and making good men better.
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
first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200
first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200
We are a lodge of Pennsylvania Freemasons dedicated to improving our community and making good men better.
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
first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200
Public directory listing. Status: active. Close date not stated.
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 unknown
Newtown Lodge No. 427 listed under Right Worshipful Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania as active at Edgewood Rd & Heacock Rd, Woodside, PA, 18940 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.
--> Lodge History | Newtown Lodge 427 top of page Newtown Lodge No. 427 Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania Home About Blog Bulletin Calendar Contact Location Meetings Officers Past Masters Recognitions Rememberance Scholarship Videos 8th District of PA More Use tab to navigate through the menu items. LODGE HISTORY The early origins of Freemasonry are shrouded in mystery. We believe early masonic history originates from ancient stonemasons that helped build many of our temples, castles and cathedrals. Freemasonry as we know it today originated in 1717 in York, England. Before establishing large permanent lodges, early English Masons would secretly meet at taverns sust as the Goose & Gridion Tavern in London. Some prominent early American colonists belonged to the fraternity and petitioned the Grand Lodge in York for a warrant to establish Masonic Lodges in the new American colonies across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1764, the Grand Lodge of England granted a warrant, which established the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. This permitted the establishment of local Masonic Lodges throughout the province. After America won the Revolutionary War, which lasted from 1775 to 1783, American Masonic Lodges began to act independently from England. Early Pennsylvania masonic lodges had no buildings of their own so in the meantime the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania would rent rooms at local taverns - similar to the
We are a lodge of Pennsylvania Freemasons dedicated to improving our community and making good men better.
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