The United States Capitol Source: Phoenixmasonry One of the world’s best-known buildings, The United States Capitol, at Washington, D.C., was the creation of a succession of architects who were almost all Freemasons. Originally designed by William Thornton (1759-1828), the work was…
The Buffalo Soldiers Of all these Lodges we have only one Lodge that has given posterity pictures. That was Joppa Lodge #150 with the 9th Cavalry at Fort Walla Walla, Washington, then Fort Riley, Kansas and finally The Philippines. Source: Phoenixmasonry By Frederic L. Milliken Brother…
USS Baron DeKalb: The Masonic Ironclad? written by Michael Halleran, M.M. From the Scottish Rite Journal Lying nearly forgotten in the archives at Wichita State University in Kansas are the personal papers of Adm. John Grimes Walker who began his naval career in the Civil War. He was born in New…
