Florida Sentinel, Annual Edition 1904, "1867 - Free Masonry in Florida - 1904" (UWF Digital Collections, uwf.digital.flvc.org): Florida's first Black lodges organized…
Year: 1867 · Places: Florida, Northeast, Ayiti, Caribbean, Europe
SUMMARYFlorida Sentinel, Annual Edition 1904, "1867 - Free Masonry in Florida - 1904" (UWF Digital Collections, uwf.digital.flvc.org): Florida's first Black lodges organized 1867 by Charles F. Dailey, chartered by HIRAM Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania; Dailey born St. Thomas, West Indies (1820), first degrees in Liverpool, Scottish Rite in Glasgow, knighted at Greenock, member of the Grand Orient of France; by 1904, 225 lodges and 9,564 members; Grand Master Rev. J. H. Dickerson; Scottish Rite consistories; Shriner temples. Record (Tito's find). Lens: Caribbean -> Britain -> France -> Florida (the Ayiti Hub in Masonic form); Black Floridians organized under Hiram's name two years after the war.