Duval Lodge No 159 F & A M

MEETINGS

Stated communications are the first and third Tuesdays of the month. The Lodge is dark in the month of August.

Dinner is served at 6:30 p.m., the Lodge opens at 7:30 p.m.

HISTORY

Duval Lodge No. 159 F. & A. M. was chartered January 19th, 1906. The Lodge is named for William Pope Duval, the first provincial governor of Florida, and his brother, John Pope Duval, Florida’s first Grand Master.

Duval’s first Worshipful Master was Frank Stephens. Since his time in the East, many of the Lodge’s past Masters have gone on to distinguish themselves in the higher Masonic degrees or in the Florida Grand Lodge. Among them, R⸫W⸫ Curtis F. Archer (1951) and R⸫W⸫ Charles W. Snead (1969), who went on to serve as District Deputy Grand Masters. Most notably, however, is our own M⸫W⸫ Wilbur W. Masters Jr., who went on to serve as Grand Master of Masons for the State of Florida subsequent to his 1939 reign as Duval Lodge’s Master.

Since it’s establishment, Duval Lodge has been an integral part of our community, reflecting not only the rich diversity, but also the character and distinction of our historic river city.