Oasis Shriners

Oasis Shriners trace their history back to 1894, when
Walter Scott "Daddy" Liddell petitioned Acca Temple
in Richmond, Va., to organize a Shrine Temple in North
Carolina, actually the first in the Carolinas, North and South.
Those joining with Liddell were Belk department store founder
William Henry Belk, Dr. J.F. Robertson, B. Swift Davis, John
Farrier, C.L. Hopkins, W.B. Summersett, D.E. Allen and George
Meredith. The Charter was granted on Oct. 10, 1894, by Imperial Potentate
William B. Melish of Cincinnati.