(by Darren Tobia, Jersey Digs, June 30, 2022)
A century-old collection of freemason artifacts was lost when the historic Masonic Temple in Orange burned down two months ago.
The artifacts had been put in a time capsule fashioned out of a hermetically sealed iron box, then secured behind a brick the year the building at 235 Main Street was dedicated in 1887. What the collection contained was a mystery as only one member of Union Lodge 11 — an 86-year-old man — is alive and he couldn’t remember what…
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