
Welcome to
Franklin Lodge No 5 Free & Accepted Masons of Washington
Worth the drive to Franklin 5!
Worth the drive to Franklin 5!
We meet in the oldest Masonic Building in the State of Washington, built in 1870. Come join us and learn of our rich history.
Franklin Lodge is a great place to meet with your brothers on the level and by the square. Join us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month!
As members of the World's oldest and Largest Fraternal Organization, we look to the East for guidance in honing our Craft.
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!
Freemasonry trains the character as well as the mind, inculcating ideals as well as ideas, and qualities as well as qualifications. Freemasonry means a better sense of values; rates honesty and square dealing above personal status.
6 Rainier Avenue Northeast, Port Gamble, Washington 98364, United States
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