1884
Chartered
On the twenty-ninth of October, the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ohio constituted Ohio Valley Lodge № 536 at Crown City. Bro. S. S. Williams was installed as the first Worshipful Master.
Ohio Valley Lodge № 536 was constituted upon the twenty-ninth day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, when a body of Master Masons drawn from the river towns of Gallia and the surrounding counties petitioned the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ohio for a dispensation to labor in the village of Crown City. The petition was granted, and our charter received with great rejoicing under the gavel of our first Worshipful Master, Bro. S. S. Williams.
For nigh on a century and a half we have endeavored, by the lights of our forefathers, to make good men better, to relieve the distressed, and to keep our ancient ceremonies unaltered for the brethren who shall come after.
On the twenty-ninth of October, the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Ohio constituted Ohio Valley Lodge № 536 at Crown City. Bro. S. S. Williams was installed as the first Worshipful Master.
After fourteen years of meeting in rented rooms above the general store, the brethren purchased and dedicated a permanent hall on Charles Street.
Partnering with Eastern Star Crown Chapter № 412, the lodge first rendered apple butter over open kettle—a tradition unbroken to this day.
The lodge marked fifty years of labor with a rededication ceremony attended by the Grand Master of Masons in Ohio.
One hundred years upon the rolls. The Cantrell Memorial Scholarship was endowed in observance of the centennial.
Major restoration of the lodge room: new flooring upon the mosaic and the regilding of the Volume of Sacred Law's stand.
Plans laid for the lodge's one hundred and fortieth anniversary observance.
A selected roster from the rolls. Complete records on file with the Secretary.
✠ Departed to the Celestial Lodge above