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Woodhull Lodge No. 982: Jamaica’s Offshoot in Eastern Queens

Organized in Jamaica’s Masonic Temple in 1921, Woodhull Lodge No. 982 brought together bankers, political figures, professionals and tradesmen from eastern Queens. Explore its beginnings as Jamaica Lodge’s offshoot, its Revolutionary-era namesake, members’ lives and the consolidations that carried its institutional line into Springfield Gardens Lodge No. 1057.

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Jamaica Lodge No. 546: A Mother Lodge of Southeast Queens

Chartered in 1864, Jamaica Lodge No. 546 helped neighboring lodges begin, supported Jamaica Hospital and maintained a temple where younger institutions could meet. Follow its history from rented Town Hall rooms to a relocated chapel, Woodhull’s formation and the consolidations that carried Jamaica’s institutional line into Springfield Gardens Lodge in 2013.

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