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While traveling last winter holidays to visit relatives in Sutter Creek, we decided to go for lunch at the new taqueria downtown Sutter Creek.
After having a nice lunch, we decided to walk downtown which is beautiful and quite evocative of the Gold Rush.
Suddenly my daughter pointed to the door of the building next to the restaurant and exclaimed " Daddy, the Freemasons lodge!". Sure enough, she had found the entry door of Henry Clay lodge. As it was December and Holidays
Season, the lodge was dark. However, I promised myself to try to visit it when the timing will allow another visit to the family folks!
But another piece of information of interest is that one of the lodges in the 333rd Masonic District was actually created by a member of lodge #95. San Mateo Masonic Lodge.
On December 27, 1872, a dispensation was granted by Free Mason Grand Master Leonidas B. Pratt to brethren at Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, to organize as Hayward Lodge, U.D. The name was reluctantly granted to the petitioners by the Grand Master solely because he considered it to be improper to name a Lodge after a living man. In fact, the creation of the Lodge brought about a
revision of Grand Lodge regulations, henceforth forbidding the naming of a Lodge after any living person. The Lodge was originally named for Right Worshipful Brother Alvinza Hayward then Senior Past Master of Henry Clay Lodge No. 95, at Sutter Creek, Amador County, and Past Junior Grand Warden of the Grand Lodge of California.
Submitted by:
Sebastien Taveau, P.M.
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