Washington Lodge No. 1 Grand Lodge of Delaware, A.F. & A.M.
NC-157: originally installed in 2006. Chartered by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania as Lodge No. 14 on December 27, 1769, this is one of the first documented Masonic Lodges in Delaware. Its members included many prominent figures of the Revolutionary and early statehood period including Continental Army officers Peter Jaquett and Caleb P. Bennett, French […]
Union Lodge No. 5, A.F. & A. M.
NC-214: Chartered on June 24, 1765 by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania A.Y.M., Lodge No. 5 at Cantwell’s Bridge (later known as Odessa) became the first Masonic lodge established in Delaware. The lodge was admitted to membership under the Grand Lodge of Delaware in January, 1816. Lodge No. 5 moved to Middletown in 1822 and […]
Hiram Lodge No. 25
NCC-159: By the 1780s, members of the Masonic fraternity were organized and meeting locally. On December 6, 1802, a charter was issued by the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania for Lodge No. 96 in Newark. This was one of four Lodges whose representatives gathered in Wilmington on June 6 and 7, 1806, to form the Grand […]
Grand Lodge of Delaware
NC-156: Originally Installed in 2006. Organized Freemasonry in Delaware can be traced to the mid-18th century. For many years Lodges were chartered by other states. On June 6, 1806, representatives of Masonic Lodges located in Wilmington, New Castle, Newark, and Laurel, met at this location for the purpose of organizing the Grand Lodge of […]
