Talk:Grand Lodge of Texas

message: On March 3, 2021, an anonymous user edited the first sentence in the article, changing the date of 1751 to 1717. This sentence correctly states that the Grand Lodge of Texas, A.F. & A.M., is of "the Ancients' tradition" and descends "from the Ancient Grand Lodge of England, founded in 1751." This is correct, as the Grand Lodge of Texas was formed by three lodges holding charters from the Grand Lodge of Louisiana, founded in 1812 by five lodges that descended from the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. The Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania was formed out of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, which was a provincial grand lodge of the Ancient Grand Lodge of England, founded on July 17, 1751, at the Turk's Head Tavern in Greek Street, Soho, London. The anonymous user was incorrect in assuming that the Ancient Grand Lodge and the Moderns Grand Lodge (founded in 1717) were one and the same. I will change this incorrect edit to read "July 17, 1751," and I will add an endnote to support it. PGNormand (talk) 18:22, 3 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Ancient Grand Lodge of England

message: I removed the addresses that were added for some of the lodges listed here. When I created this article and listed the historic lodges that were organized during the Republic of Texas it was to provide historical information about the original lodges of the Grand Lodge. I felt it important to distinguish between those lodges that had been organized during the Republic of Texas period and those that were established later. As a result, a lodge that had demised, but had its chartered restored in a different location at a later time, was still considered demised simply because the lodge in that historic location no longer existed. An obvious distinction is made between the charter of Holland Lodge No. 1, which never demised but was simply moved from its original location of Brazoria to Houston in 1836 or 1837, as opposed to some other lodge charter which was surrendered to the Grand Lodge because the lodge demised in the 1800s but was restored in an entirely different location a century later. That cannot be considered the same Lodge. By the same token, to attempt to list the "street address" of each of these historic lodges is to miss the point of including a list of lodges organized before 1846. PGNormand (talk) 17:50, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Early Texas Lodges

message: Hi, I cam across this article because it was listed at Category:Freemasonry articles needing attention. I looks fine to we with the exception of remove the first two sections: Early History of Freemasonry and Freemasonry in America. That information doesn't need to be on this page. Eric Cable  |  Talk  19:48, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Beats heck out of me. Looks like I added that parameter while doing some sort of automated run two years ago. I'll remove it now. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:51, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why on List of Articles Needing Attention? 

message: This article would flow better were it to begin with "Early Masonry in Texas". The first two paragraphs seem superfluous. Dogface (talk) 22:03, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible section deletion?=