A Masonic emblem that Elgin officials had wanted to preserve crumbled as the terra cotta symbols were removed from a historic building, officials said Monday. In October the City Council reluctantly ...

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Centuries before Jimmy Choo shoes and Louis Vuitton luggage, Freemasons were the fashionistas of their times, wearing bejeweled sashes and aprons adorned with esoteric symbols dating back to King ...

On March 3 at Eggleston’s Masonic Lodge #309, a rare presentation of a 50-year Masonic Veteran Emblem was conducted. Under the direction of Worshipful Master Barry Williams, Right Worshipful Charles ...

Conspiracy theorists see them everywhere, from the paintings of Da Vinci to the humble dollar bill. Real or imagined, the symbols of Freemasonry through the ages have beguiled and tantalised. Now ...

In the center of Castleton, occupying part of a 1917 two-story brick block, Lee Lodge No. 30, established in 1852, an organization of Free and Accepted Masons who built the Bird Mountain Monument, is ...

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