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| | History of the Oldest Masonic Lodge in Nebraska, First Lodge of Nebraska, Nebraska Lodge #1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | It was here at Bellevue in 1855, in the two story “Trading Post”, made of logs and operated by Peter A. Sarpy, that the first meetings of a Masonic Lodge were held in Nebraska Territory. |
 | | The Nebraska Lodge, No. 184, received its Charter in October of 1855, at the hands of the Grand Lodge of Illinois signed by Most Worshipful Grand Master James L. Anderson during a meeting at Springfield, Illinois; the charter was delivered to Brother L.B. Kinney, who visited the Grand Lodge for that purpose. |
 | | The Grand Lodge of Nebraska was organized at a convention held in Omaha, Nebraska Territory, on September 23, 1857. |
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