On Tuesday, November 11, 1864, the initial petitioners for Dispensation met for their first official meeting.
The first Lodge Hall was the upper room of the Davis Building, just two doors south of the present Lodge room.
Jamestown Lodge was one of the early ‘moon’ Lodges which held meetings on Tuesdays before each full moon. Since the Lodge remained opened all year this caused two meetings to be held in some months. In years like 1884, the Lodge met 13 times, twice in September (the 2nd and 30th). The second occurrence of a full moon in any calendar is called a ‘blue moon’, therefore extra meetings were held by Jamestown Lodge once a blue moon!
On July 21, 1900, Brothers J. L. Ginn, J. H. Sanders, and Jess Taylor, Trustees of Jamestown Lodge #352, were instructed to enter into an agreement to build our present Lodge room for the sum of $2,000.00, and to sell the old Lodge room to the same firm for the sum of $40-0.00.
In 1938, Right Worshipful Brother Harry B. Pickering was appointed as District Deputy Grand Master of the 8th Masonic District.
Right Worshipful Brother Royce Pauley was installed as District Deputy Grand Master of the 8th Masonic on November 2, 1972.
On November 4, 1989, Right Worshipful Brother Waiter R. Jones was installed as District Deputy Grand Master.
With continued remodeling and redecorating, the building has been kept in a good state of repair to the present day, and membership has grown from the original 58 members to 104 at the present time.
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Jamestown Lodge No. 352, Free and Accepted Masons, was chartered on October 18, 1865, with the following charter members: J. W. Pulliam, M. O. Adams, G. W. Wright, J. T. Houston, H. H. Gibney, E. Doherty, A. D. Dowden and J. R. Kendall. The first officers included the following: J. W. Pulliam, worshipful master; A. D. Dowden, senior warden; M. O. Adams, junior warden; J. T. Houston, treasurer; D. N. Foreman, secretary; J. R. Kendall, senior deacon; Samuel Zortman, junior deacon; John Zeiner, tyler. The lodge owns the second floor of the Adams store building, where it has well-appointed quarters for the work of the lodge. The order expended approximately three thousand dollars for its share of the building. The present officers are Frank Johnson, worshipful master; H. L. Bowermeister, senior warden; H. C. Fisher, junior warden; M. T. McCreight, treasurer; J. D. King, secretary; Otto Thorpe, senior deacon; J. Leroy Spahr, junior deacon; F. W. Ogan, tyler; C. E. Thuma, master of ceremonies; J. H. Sanders, L. C. Walker and J. H. Perry, trustees; C. E. Thuma and C. E. Ream, grievance committee; R. H. Glass and J. H. Perry, stewards. The past masters of the lodge are J. W. Pulliam, J. T. Houston, John Zeiner, G. E. Bailey, D. M. Shrack, W. F. McMillan, F. W. Alden, J. B. Christopher, W. H. Blair, L. C. Walker, W. A. Paxson, M. J. Flannery, Frank McGuire, R. W. Christy, Charles Clark, H. K. Laird. C. E. Thuma, Frank Shigley, F. W. Ogan, J. D. King, R. H. Glass, C. E. Gerard, J. H. Perry, L. W. Dunham, G. K. Dennis and Otto Thorpe. The present membership is ninety.