Important Dates

• Ten Master Masons plan lodge formation – March 1909
• Under Dispensation – April 20, 1909
• Chartered – February 10, 1910
• Grand Master Presents Charter / Lodge Consecrated – April 15, 1910
• 100 Years of Brotherhood – February 10, 2010

Our Lodge History

Ten Master Masons met at a home in Vienna one might in March 1909, to discuss plans for the formation of a new Lodge. It was ascertained that all present were in accord and in sympathy with the movement and a letter was drafted to Most Worshipful Joseph W. Eggleston, Grand Master of Masons in Virginia requesting a dispensation. The name given at that time was Vienna Lodge. The Grand Master issued the dispensation on April 20, 1909, and it was presented by the District Deputy Grand Master of Masonic District No. 1, in which District the Lodge was included. The Worshipful Master named in the dispensation was O. F. Jones. At the organizational meeting, an application was received from Brother John Collins, who presented a Grand Lodge “Certificate of Good Standing.” He was duly elected at the May 1909 meeting and thus became the first new member of the Lodge. At the meeting of the Grand Lodge in February 1910, the Worshipful Master requested that the name be changed From Vienna to Concord in view of the fact that there had been concord amongst its members and of the spirit which should continue. The Grand Lodge concurred and on February 10, 1910, a charter was granted to Concord Lodge No. 307. The District Deputy Grand Master presented the charter on April 15, 1910, and the Lodge was consecrated. Taking part in the ceremony was Right Worshipful Henry Knox Field who later became Grand Master of Masons in Virginia, for whom the Lodge in Alexandria is named, and Worshipful W. C. Shelly, the first Worshipful Master of Columbia Lodge No. 285 in Arlington. Growth of the Lodge for a number of years was slow. Jurisdiction was limited, reaching halfway to Kemper Lodge in Falls Church to the east, Henry Lodge in Fairfax to the South, and Herndon Lodge in Herndon to the west. In 1917, it became halfway to Sharon Lodge in McLean on the north when that Lodge received its charter. Population of Fairfax County at that time was less than twenty-five thousand. Concord Lodge has always met in the building at the corner of Church and Mill Streets. Although the streets and buildings around our Lodge has changed over the years, our beliefs and sense of purpose has not. We continue to meet and enjoy each others company regularly as our brothers did nearly a hundred years ago. Below is a historical sketch of how the Concord Lodge 307 arose, Phoenix like, from the ashes of Crescent Lodge No. 236.

Historical Sketch of Concord Lodge No. 307