“Grand Officers”
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Clay
(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)
Marker Text
This stone marks the place where on the twenty first day of July A.D. 1875 A.L. 5875 the most worshipful grand lodge, ancient free and accepted masons of Dakota, was constituted and the officers installed.
Grand Officers
Thos. H. Brown,M.W. Grand Master
R.J. Dewitt,R.W.D Grand Master
C.G. Shaw,R.W.SR. Grand Warden
H.H. Blair,R.W.JR. Grand Warden Geo. R. Hand,R.W. Grand Treasurer
Mark W. Bailey,R.W. Grand Secretary
The First Baptist Church erected in the Territory of Dakota it stood on this site and was the building in which the Grand Lodge was constituted.
Location
Clay County, 4 Blocks south of Main on Chestnut & Dakota in Vermillion