official website · primary
Great Bridge Lodge No. 257, A. F. & A. M.first seen 2026-09-20 · last verified 2026-09-20 · HTTP 200
lodgeactivenot on UGLE listva-257-great-bridge-lodge
directory onlyOfficial URLs are kept after they die. Facebook is social, not a replacement site.
Rank #1041 worldwide · score 30.7 · med directory onlyTravel 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 | 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 | 251 | 1.8 |
| 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 8f8a356f-954d-53eb-b5c6-63eb4a761d58
No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.
Charter / constitution / claimed descent. Not recognition.
| Source | Target | Dates | Evidence | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Lodge, A.F. & A.M., of the Commonwealth of Virginia | chartered | Great Bridge 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.
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
Great Bridge Lodge No. 257 listed under Grand Lodge, A.F. & A.M., of the Commonwealth of Virginia as active at 148 Mt. Pleasant Road, Chesapeake, Virginia, 23328 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.
Lodge History — Great Bridge Lodge No. 257, A. F. & A. M. 0 Skip to Content Home Lodge Officers Worshipful Master Related Links Contact Us Calendar Apply Pay Dues About Lodge History Past Masters Open Menu Close Menu Home Lodge Officers Worshipful Master Related Links Contact Us Calendar Apply Pay Dues About Lodge History Past Masters Open Menu Close Menu Home Lodge Officers Worshipful Master Related Links Contact Us Calendar Apply Pay Dues Folder: About Back Lodge History Past Masters Fifty-Year History of Great Bridge Lodge #257 (1930 to 1980) By: Alva O. “Benny” Benson (Past Treasurer, Past Master, and Trustee of Great Bridge Lodge No. 257, also Past DEO and Past D.D.G.M. of the 36th Masonic District.) To the best of my knowledge, Great Bridge freemasonry enjoyed its first permanent home in the section that was then known as lower Norfolk County, when a group of Masons received a dispensation from Most Worshipful William Henry Lambert on March 4, 1874, to establish a lodge at Hickory, Virginia, to be known as Hickory Ground Lodge U.D. The Lodge met in the Hickory Ground Academy, a school located on Benefit Road, a short distance west of the present Hickory Methodist Church, and Hickory Elementary School. They received their charter from the Grand Lodge on December 16, 1874, along with thirteen other lodges across the state, one of which was our own Lake Drummond Lodge No. 178. They were chartered as Hickory Ground Lodge No. 180, A.F. & A.M. a
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