The Grand Lodge of West Virginia is a freemason organization in West Virginia. It is the only Grand Lodge recognized by the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) and hence “regular” in the state. (The Prince Hall Grand Lodge of West Virginia is not currently recognized by the Grand Lodge of West Virginia and hence not by UGLE.) It had maintained the West Virginia Masonic Home.
Before the American Civil War, West Virginia had been a part of Virginia, and its Lodges were therefore under the control of the Grand Lodge of Virginia. The area that became West Virginia seceded from the Confederacy and “maintenance of fraternal relations between lodges of the two states became impossible” (Gazette-Times, in 1915). A convention to create a new lodge took place in 1864, and then at the war’s end, on April 12, 1865, the day when Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was formally disbanded by ceremony at Appomattox Court House, the Grand Lodge of West Virginia was founded in Fairmont, West Virginia. William Bates was its first Grand Master. Over the following period there was confusion as many West Virginia lodges still maintained loyalty to the Grand Lodge of Virginia although all the Lodges that were originally chartered by Virginia were re-chartered by the Grand Lodge of West Virginia within the next fifty years.
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- 2024 David R. Pyle October 17, 2025Fairmont Lodge No. 9admin
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- Berkeley Lodge No. 37 lays Cornerstone for the Hedgesville Learning Academy February 5, 2025Berkeley County Schools January 21, 2025 By: Tom Markland HEDGESVILLE — Dozens of members of the West Virginia Masonic organization from across West Virginia gathered on Saturday to dedicate the cornerstone of the new Hedgesville Learning Academy. The ceremony is one of only two that the organization does that the public ever sees — the […]admin
- Berkeley Lodge No. 37 December 19, 2024Grand Lodge will convene in Special Communication on Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 12:00 noon in Berkeley Lodge No. 37, located at 303 North Mary St., Hedgesville, West Virginia, to lay the cornerstone for the new Hedgesville Learning Center. Lunch will be served at 11:00 am in Berkeley Lodge No. 37. Grand Lodge will open […]admin
- Huntington Lodge No. 53 December 6, 2024The Grand Lodge convened in Special Communication Saturday July 13, 2024 In Huntington Lodge No. 53 at noon for the purpose of laying the cornerstone for the new Cabell County EMS Station. Present and not otherwise listed were: Past Grand Masters William R. French, Charles A. Louk,Owen G. Bragg, Richard E. Nuhfer and James C. […]admin
- 2023 Bruce S. Carroll December 6, 2024Triluminar Lodge No. 117admin
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