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Roger Lacey Lodge No. 722
May 6th, 2008 by Ryan
Freemasonry began in Georgia in February, 1734, with the organization of a Lodge in Savannah. General James Edward Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia, was the organizer and first Master of the Lodge.
In December, 1735, the Lodge was enrolled on the register of the Grand Lodge of England and was known as “the Lodge at Savannah in Ye Province of Georgia”.
In 1736, Roger Hugh Lacey arrived in Savannah with a Deputation from the Grand Master of Masons in England to Constitute the Lodge at Savannah of Georgia in America. This Lodge is now known as Solomon’s Lodge No. 1, Savannah. (It was the second regularly constituted Lodge in North America and is now the oldest continuously operating Lodge in the Western Hemisphere.) It continued as a subordinate Lodge of the Grand Lodge of England until it and other Lodges created and proclaimed the new and sovereign Grand Lodge of Georgia, F. & A.M., on December 16, 1786.
Chamblee-Sardis Lodge No. 444
May 6th, 2008 by Ryan
The purpose of secrecy is not to keep the candidate in the dark, but to stimulate him to seek the light. The symbols and emblems of our Order do not conceal the teachings - they reveal them - but in such a manner that a man finds truth for himself. It is only when this happens to the individual that such findings will remain with him as a cherished permanent possession.