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May 23, 2022 · On March 1, 1835, a meeting to organize the first Masonic Lodge in Texas had been held under a large oak tree in a wild peach grove near Brazoria, former West Columbia school teacher Creighton wrote in his 1975 book, “A Narrative History of Brazoria County.”
In the winter of 1834, Anson Jones, who was to become the first Grand Master of Texas Masonic lodges and later the third president of the Republic of Texas, met with four other Masons and took measures to establish a Lodge of their order in Texas.
Early Masonry in Texas. On 11 February 1828, Stephen F. Austin called a meeting of Masons at San Felipe de Austin for the purpose of petitioning the York Grand Lodge of Mexico (Yorkinos) for a charter to form a lodge.
In March 1835 the first Masonic meeting was held in Texas for the purpose of establishing a lodge in Texas. Six Masons met under an oak tree near the town of Brazoria. They applied to the Grand Lodge of Louisiana for a dispensation to form and open a Lodge.
The Grand Lodge of the Republic of Texas was formed on December 29, 1837 in the Senate Chambers of the capitol of the Republic in Houston. Representatives of the three lodges then chartered in Texas met, and Sam Houston presided. Anson Jones was elected as the first Grand Master.
The first known Masonic meeting ever held in Texas was in February 1828 when Stephen F. Austin, Ira Ingram (who had his land in what would become Waller County) and 5 other masons met in San Felipe. They met to draw up a petition to get a dispensation to form new Masonic lodge in San Felipe Texas.
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Reagan Lodge doesn’t trace its history to Texas in the 1830’s but the roots of Texas Masonry certainly start there. The lodge does however have the distinction of being first Masonic lodge in the Houston Heights, established at a time when that city was a struggling blue collar trolley suburb of Houston.
