The local record. Denver’s lodges, Colorado’s Masonic history, its landmarks, its governance, and the men who built the Craft here — from a tent on the South Platte in 1858 to the present day.
Freemasonry arrived in Colorado before Colorado was Colorado. The men who came west for gold in 1858 brought the Craft with them, and the first Masonic gathering in what would become Denver took place in a tent before there was a town to hold it in. The fraternity’s history in this state runs from that […]
Read moreDenver and Freemasonry share a founding story. The city did not yet have a name when the first Masons gathered at the confluence of Cherry Creek and the South Platte River in the fall of 1858. What grew from that gathering is one of the more durable civic traditions in Colorado history: a community of […]
Read moreFreemasonry arrived in Denver before Denver had a name. The first Masonic meeting in what would become Colorado took place on November 3, 1858, in a cabin at the junction of Cherry Creek and the Platte River — the same ground where the city now stands. Denver and its...
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