Rockingham Union Lodge

Website liveness

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Current site

Rockingham Union Lodge No. 27 – Making good men better since 1789Facebook Group Email HTTP 200

Rockingham Union Lodge No. 27 – Making good men better since 1789Facebook Group Email HTTP 200

Former sites

none recorded

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/groups/rockinghamunion27

https://www.facebook.com/rockinghamunion27afam

Public-web footprint

Rank #1022 worldwide · score 30.7 · med directory onlyTravel signal only. Footprint ≠ members. Dead official URLs do not earn the live-site points.

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Number

27

Status

active

Grand Lodge

Grand Lodge, A.F. & A.M., of the Commonwealth of Virginia

Opened

unknown

Closed

unknown

Successor

unknown

Meetings

unknown

Events

No lifecycle events. Proceedings not extracted yet.

Rockingham Union Lodge No. 27 listed under Grand Lodge, A.F. & A.M., of the Commonwealth of Virginia as active at 114 South Main Street, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 22812 on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.

Lodge History – Rockingham Union Lodge No. 27 Skip to content Rockingham Union Lodge No. 27 Making good men better since 1789 Home About Us Lodge Leadership Lodge History Trestleboard Become A Mason Contact Facebook Group Email Located at 114 S. Main St., Harrisonburg, Virginia Rockingham Union Lodge No. 27 Making good men better since 1789 Home About Us Lodge Leadership Lodge History Trestleboard Become A Mason Contact Lodge History The Beginning In 1789, several members of Staunton Lodge No. 13 decided that travelling from Harrisonburg to Staunton for Masonic meetings was unsustainable. They sought endorsement from their Lodge, which had been officially chartered in 1786, to form a new Lodge in Harrisonburg. They received dispensation for their Lodge that year and on October 29, 1789, they were chartered as Rockingham Union Lodge No. 27 with William Herring as Master, Benjamin Smith as Senior Warden, and William Cravens as Junior Warden. They held their first meeting on December 10th of that same year, during which several new members were initiated and several members of Staunton Lodge No. 13 were present in support. Brothers Benjamin Harrison, Francis Stuart, Charles McClain, John Epplier, Robert Cravens, Benjamin Smith, Jr., and Samuel McWilliams were those initiated that evening and all were raised within short order. These early meetings were held in the home of William Cravens, whose home stood on what was called “Jail Hill.” This would be in the are

Lodge Leadership – Rockingham Union Lodge No. 27 Skip to content Rockingham Union Lodge No. 27 Making good men better since 1789 Home About Us Lodge Leadership Lodge History Trestleboard Become A Mason Contact Facebook Group Email Located at 114 S. Main St., Harrisonburg, Virginia Rockingham Union Lodge No. 27 Making good men better since 1789 Home About Us Lodge Leadership Lodge History Trestleboard Become A Mason Contact Lodge Leadership 2026 Lodge Officers Matthew R. Phillippi 2026 Worshipful Master David S. Bates 2026 Senior Warden Tyler A. Blanks 2026 Junior Warden History of Worshipful Masters William Herring – 1789 Benjamin Smith, Sr. – 1791 Williams Cravens – 1792 Asher Waterman – 1793/94 Matthew Gambil – 1795 John Taylor – 1796 Asher Waterman – 1797 William Smith – 1799 Jacob Wyant – 1800 Henry Gambill – 1801 Samuel Chandler – 1807 Henry Gambill – 1808 Asher Waterman – 1809 Henry Gambill – 1810 Julius Foster – 1813 Asher Waterman – 1814 Asher Waterman – 1822 Henry Welch – 1823 Alexander McCartney – 1825 Joseph Cravens – 1826 Alexander McCartney – 1827 William McCausland – 1828 Thomas Clarke – 1830 David Jones – 1832 James Hall – 1833 Hugh Bruffy – 1835 Thomas Clarke – 1841 Joseph Rohr – 1842 Peachy Rice – 1843 George Newman – 1844 David Jones – 1845 W. Gambill – 1846 R. Stevens – 1847 Henry Higgins – 1848 George Bruffy – 1849 Joseph Braithwaite – 1850 Isaac Hardesty – 1851 Quincy Nicholas – 1853 Alfred Rohr – 1855 William Wartman – 1856 Henry Wartman – 1857 Jos