OF LANCASTER COUNTY. 497 



Columbia Lodge, No. 286, held at Columbia. Wanant dated .January 13ih, A. L., 

 5854, by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. 



Ashara Lodge, No. 398, held at :Marietta. "Warrant dated Novcnilx?r, A. L.,5807, liy 

 Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. 



Colerain Lodge, No. 417, held at Kirkwood, Coleraiu townshiii. AVarrant dated June, 

 A. L., 5868. 



Chapter 43, A. Y. 'M., held at Lancaster City. Original Dispensatiou granted March 

 2, A. L., 5809. 



Columbia Commaudery, No. 13, of Knights Templar, held in Lancaster City. Dis- 

 pensatiou grauted June 11, A. L. 5856. 



Goodwin Council, No. 19, of Royal Super Excellent and Select Masters, held in Lan- 

 caster City. Dispensation granted February 26th, A. L., 5864. 



The counties of Lancaster and Y'ork constitute the Masonic District, No. 1., with 

 Charles M. Howell, R. W. District Deputy Grand :>Lister. 



INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS.i 



Odd Fellowship was introduced into Lancaster county on the 29th of May, 1841, by 

 the institution of Lancaster Lodge, No. 67i The meetings of the lodge were for some 

 time held in a room on the southwest corner of North Queen and "SValnut streets, 

 when rooms in the building on the southwest corner of North Queen and Chesnut 

 were leased for the purpose. In 1845 the lodge purchased and remodeled the building 

 known as the Quaker Meeting House, in South Queen street, and in 1846 moved into 

 it, where it has remained to this time. Owing to the strong prejudice whicli prevailed 

 among a great portion of the citizens of this county against secret societies, the build- 

 ing was not formally dedicated until 1852, when a grand demonstration of the Order 

 took place in Lancaster. Lancaster Lodge at present numbers over four luindred mem- 

 bers in good standing, and possesses property valued at .^15,000. This lodge has, since 

 its organization, paid out for benefits to sick and disabled members, and for the relief 

 of widows and orphans, $23,118.16. Monterey Lodge, also of Lancaster city, though 

 established some years later than Lancaster Lodge, has nearly four hundred contri- 

 buting brothers, and over $8,000 invested. The annual report ending May, 1868, showed 

 a membership of 1,674, and that the receipts for that lodge year were $12,347, and the 

 amount paid out during the same period for relief, $7,173, in Lancaster county. Be- 

 sides the subordinate lodges, there are three Encampments of the patriarchal or higher 

 degrees of the Order — one in Lancaster city, another at Columbia, and a third at 

 Marietta. 



The following is a list of the lodges and encampments of Odd Fellows, in Lancas- 

 ter city and county, with their locations : 

 No. 67, Lancaster Lodge, Lancaster. 



" 80, Susquehanna Lodge, Columbia. 



" 128, Elizabethtown Lodge, Elizabethtown. 



" 129, Donegal Lodge, Marietta. 



'• 161, Pequea Lodge, Paradise. 



" 243, Monterey Lodge, Lancaster. 



" 277, Mount Joy Lodge, Mount Joy. 



" 334, Conestoga Lodge, Safe Harbor. 



" 361, Strasburg Lodge, Strasburg. 



" 374, Kosciusko Lodge, Rawlinsville. 



"408, Cocalico Lodge, Reamstown. 



" 413, Earl Lodge, New Holland. 



" 420, Little Britain Lodge, Oak Hill. 



'• 509, Drumore Lodge, Fairfield. 



IContributed by 3Ir. H. A. KockaficUI. 



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