About
Freemasonry in Texas :
Under the leadership of Captain W.D. Matthews, Most Worshipful Grand Master of Kansas, Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons were established in Texas in 1871 and 1873 to wit
San Antonio Lodge #22
Mt. Bonnell Lodge # 2
Magnolia Lodge #24
Galveston Lodge #25
Mt. Lebanon Lodge #26
These were the first Black Free and Accepte
d Masonic Lodges organized in Texas. In the early part of June, 1875, Norris Wright Cuney, DGM, and Richard Allen, DDGM, acting under the authority of the Kansas Jurisdiction, issued a call requesting the above named lodges to send representatives on August 18, 1875, to meet with Mt. Lebanon, located in Brenham, Texas, for the purpose of organizing the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Texas. This organizing convention elected Norris Wright Cuney of Galveston as Grand Master, J. Taylor of Brenham as Grand Senior Warden, Edward Wilkinson of Austin as Grand Junior Warden, J. Morris of Galveston as Grand Secretary, J. Ball, Jr., of Brenham as Grand Recorder, Wilson Nichols of Galveston as Grand Treasurer, and John Lands of Galveston Grand Tyler. On January 19, 1876, these officers were installed in Houston by Grand Master Mathews. Prince Hall Masonry have been shining its light ever since in the Great State of Texas...
Good Street Baptist Lodge #182:
Chartered June 27, 1973 in Dallas, Texas. Mission:
"...Making GOOD men BETTER since 1973..."
