The following picture and
Callahan Lodge History is from the book:
The Grand Lodge of Florida
Free and Accepted Masons
History – Volume One
The Lodges
Written by J. Roy Crowther, Past Grand Master
The picture
below was taken in the 1980’s when the Lodge was located on Hwy US #301 across
from Callahan First Methodist Church.
The old building was torn down when the highway was four laned.
Below are the cornerstones that are on our
current building. The one on the
left is from our last lodge that was located on Hwy #301 across from First
Methodist Church of Callahan and next to Robert Connor's Service Station. That lodge was built in the late
1940's. The lodge on Hwy #301 did
not have a cornerstone laid until 1972 (over 25 years after it started being
used). The old cornerstone was
relocated to the new building and is located to the left of the new cornerstone
on our new and current lodge building.
The location of Callahan Masonic Lodge #32 prior to the last one located on U.S. Hwy #301 was in one of the upstairs rooms in the Brandies ACE Hardware area; above the current location of the Nassau County Record Office. Past Master Roy Wingate, Jr. and Brother Thomas Page said they were Initiated as Entered Apprentice Masons on the same night in the old lodge room located above Brandies Hardware. Brother Wingate went on to say he was Raised several months later to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason by his father, Roy L. Wingate, Sr. who was the presiding Worshipful Master that year.
