Seminole Lodge No 304 F&AM

This site is dedicated to it's history

April 16, 1952 to July 23, 2007

PREFACE  (2nd Committee)

During the middle 1970’s one of our Grand Masters, at Grand Lodge Session, proposed and encouraged each Lodge to prepare a History of their Lodge and file a copy in the fire-proof vault in Jacksonville Florida. As basis for the proposal, which fell just short of a request, because of Fire, Tornados, Hurricanes, Floods, and Vandalism, all Records and History of some Lodges have been destroyed and lost forever.  Accordingly, a copy of our original "Fragments and Recollections" is now deposited in the vault in Jacksonville, and this "First Addition" supplement will be added thereto.

Our own Lodge Building used by Seminole Lodge and Acacia chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, is occupied, on average during the year, approximately 20-hours per week. During the remaining 148- hours the building is unattended and a short circuit in electrical appliances or malicious vandalism could result in disaster before anyone in authority heard about it.

True, Grand Lodge could and would supply much important information to a Lodge in distress but not the how, the why, and when, which is Only of interest to the Members of a particular Lodge, to say nothing of the loss of Individuals Personal file and original application

The Grand Masters proposal has merit and should be adopted.

This first addition is dedicated to Worshipful Brother John Hutchinson Sr. and those Brethren who made sizable cash donations making possible an early pay-off of the mortgage on the Temple, and whose names are inscribed on a Plaque proudly displayed in the lobby of our

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