Temple Lodge No. 14 Historic Building
Sonoma, Sonoma County, California
Marker Inscription
This plaque is dedicated to the memory of the brethren who founded Temple Lodge and to the Masters and brethren who have made it a success during the past one hundred years. May 6, 1951 City of Sonoma Historic Building Temple Lodge #14 F & AM 1909
The Story
Temple Lodge No. 14, chartered in the early 1850s as California entered statehood, was among the civic institutions that knit together the young town of Sonoma. This plaque, placed in 1951, honors the lodge's founders and a century of members, and marks the 1909 building recognized as a City of Sonoma historic structure. Fraternal orders like the Masons were fixtures of community life across the settling West.
Why it matters
It preserves the memory of the fraternal and civic organizations that anchored frontier California towns in their first century.
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