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Franklin Lodge No 5 Free & Accepted Masons of Washington
Worth the drive to Franklin 5!
Franklin Lodge No 5...Our Origin
1858 was the year of inception for Franklin Lodge No 5. Eight Masons met to constitute a Masonic Lodge in Port Gamble, (then called Teekalet, a native word meaning "Brightness of the noon day sun").
Our Founders were Henry K. White, Cyrus Walker, Oliver Hall, and John Webster, each being Masons from various states, who were employees at the Puget Mill Company along with seafaring men J.P. Wilbur, Richard Carlton, A.W. Gove and John Y. Wynn, who together drafted the petition required for a lodge to be sanctioned.
Our original building was destroyed by a fire around 1867. For the next three years, the lodge was given special dispensation to hold meetings in a community hall. Our Lodge has been in existence for 162 years, and the building you see today is where we have met for 150 of those years—and still going strong!
