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North Star Lodge

lodgeactivenot on UGLE listvt-12-north-star-lodge

Identity

Abbreviation
unknown
Jurisdiction
US-VT · Vermont
Also operates
unknown
Naming style
F&AM
Claimed tradition
craft lodge under Grand Lodge of Vermont, F. & A.M.
Founded
unknown
Website
https://www.northstar12-faam.org/home

Public contacts

email: northstarno12@gmail.com personal published by org

Addresses

physical 58 Bridge St., Richmond, VT

Officers (public)

Junior Deacon: Joe Pobieglo
Junior Warden: Brian Chaffee
Secretary: George Roy
Senior Deacon: Thomas Corr
Senior Warden: Jim Smith
Treasurer: Maurice Humphrey
Worshipful Master: Ryan Lawrence

Website

Website liveness

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

Current site
NorthStar12 HTTP 200
Former sites
none recorded
Facebook
none in corpus

Public-web footprint

Public-web footprint

Rank #2282 worldwide · score 30.4 · 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 chars2011.6
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 3ab8d196-eb53-5401-819b-a0b5a77cb8cf

Lodge lifecycle

Number
12
Status
active
Grand Lodge
Grand Lodge of Vermont, 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 Vermont, F. & A.M.charteredNorth Star 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
NorthStar12

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

directory entry · locator
North Star Lodge No. 12 — 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 43 — Grand Lodge of Vermont, F. & A.M.

North Star Lodge No. 12 listed under Grand Lodge of Vermont, F. & A.M. as active at 58 Bridge St., Richmond, VT on public directory (accessed 2026-09-20). Open/close dates not stated on this directory.

historical sketch

NorthStar12 - Our History In Pictures Search this site Embedded Files Skip to main content Skip to navigation NorthStar12 Home North Star Lodge #12 Trestleboards Membership Grand Lodge of Vermont About Us Our History In Pictures Lodge Officers Contact Us Upcoming Events Member's Portal Scholarship Form NorthStar12 Our History In Pictures Google Sites Report abuse Page details Page updated Google Sites Report abuse

official about

NorthStar12 - About Us Search this site Embedded Files Skip to main content Skip to navigation NorthStar12 Home North Star Lodge #12 Trestleboards Membership Grand Lodge of Vermont About Us Our History In Pictures Lodge Officers Contact Us Upcoming Events Member's Portal Scholarship Form NorthStar12 About Us + North Star Lodge is located at 58 Bridge Street at the south end of the Richmond business block between the stop lights at the intersection of Route 2 and Bridge Street and the railroad tracks. + The first North Star Lodge was chartered in Manchester, Vermont in 1785 by St. Andrews Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. After the Grand Lodge of Vermont was established in 1794, it was numbered as North Star Lodge No.2. Vermont Lodge No. 1, also chartered by the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, however, was located on the New Hampshire side of the Conneticutt River. North Star is actually the first lodge chartered in the wilderness that would later become the state of Vermont. North Star Lodge No.2 gave up its charter and became extinct in 1810. + In 1823, brethern in the town of Williston petitioned Grand Lodge for a lodge of their own to be named Chittenden Lodge. The petition was granted but was chartered as North Star Lodge No.58. Grand Lodge numbered each lodge sequentially as they were chartered. + The anti-Masonic period severely disrupted the growth of Masonry between the years of 1826 through to 1845. Many of the lodges gave up their charter during this period and became

Assertions

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