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Black plaque № 25452

Fort Worth, TX, United States

Black plaque № 25452

Site of the First Masonic Hall in Fort Worth. After many years of debate, Fort Worth researchers identified this site in 1957 as the location of the city's first Masonic lodge. For more than twenty years, lodge members met in a two-story hall at this location. The group organized in 1854 and receive

d its charter the following year as Fort Worth Masonic Lodge No. 148, A.F. & A.M. Members initially rented space for meetings and began construction on their own lodge hall in 1857. The new building o

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