BOGUE CHITTO LODGE #260, F. & A. M.
BOGUE CHITTO, MISSISSIPPI

UNDER DISPENSATION: 1860
CHARTERED: January 15, 1866
MEETS: 1st Monday @ 7:00 PM
413 Monticello Street
Bogue Chitto, MS

GPS: N31 26.362 W90 27.261

HISTORY

Masonic Lodge buildings:

• 1st: Information on the location of this building is still being researched. It is known that this building burned on October 8, 1872.
• 2nd: It is believed that the Masons shared a building with the Woodmen of the World somewhere in the vicinity of where Roberts Store is currently located. The same building was also used by the Baptist and Methodist congregations before they built their own church buildings. Grand Lodge records indicate the charter was replaced on May 28, 1900 after being destroyed in a fire when the lodge was struck by lightning.
• 3rd: The Masons relocated into the upper floor of the Planters Bank located on the northwest corner of Railroad Avenue and Yellow Pine Street. This building burned in 1930 destroying lodge records again.
• 4th: For the next several years, the Masons met in a building that originally belonged to the Woodmen of the World on the north side of Monticello Street near Railroad Avenue. This building was badly damaged in a storm in the early 1938 and was torn down with the materials being used to construct the 5th Lodge building.
• 5th: In the early 1940's a new lodge building and post office was built across the street from the previous building. This building still stands on the east end of Monticello Street.
• 6th: This building across the street from the Baptist church on Monticello Street was originally a post office (one of three post office buildings still standing in the town). When the new post office was built next door in 1996, the Masonic Lodge moved into this building.

Events:

• The R. W. Grand Secretary presented the following petition, praying for Dispensations authorizing the institution of the following new Lodges: Boguechitto Lodge, at Boguechitto, Pike County, which, on his on motion, was referred to the Committee on Dispensations. Part of Grand Secretary's report to the 1860 Grand Lodge.
• Bro. Timberlake, in behalf of the Committee on Dispensations, submitted the following report, which was received and adopted:
  Your Committee on Dispensations, beg leave to further report that the petition of T. J. Connally, et al., to organize a Lodge at Bogue Chitto, Pike county, to be called Bogue Chitto Lodge No. ____, be granted, as the papers in reference thereto are regular. J. W. TIMBERLAKE, for the Committee. Report to the 1860 Grand Lodge.
• Dispensations issued at this Communication (1860): Bogue Chitto Lodge #260, Bogue Chitto, Pike Co.
• In 1870 two Lodges had the same number, Bogue Chitto in Pike County (now Lincoln) and Brooks in Oktibbeha County. It was recommended and both lodges concurred that Brooks be numbered to 262.
• On October 8, 1872 Bogue Chitto Lodge No. 260 burned destroying the Lodge and all its contents. A Duplicate Charter was issued on November 4, 1872.
• A duplicate charter was issued May 28, 1900 after the Lodge was stuck by lightning and burned.
• A duplicate charter was issued January 15, 1931 after the Lodge burned.
• I have approved the appeals for the following Lodges: Westville No. 78 appealing to the constituent Lodges for assistance in the repair of its Hall. Bogue Chitto Lodge No. 260 for assistance in the rebuilding of its Hall.
  From the Grand Masters report to the 1939 Grand Lodge

MEMBERS

• 1861 to 1879

• 1880 to 1899

• 1900 to 1919

• 1920 to 1939

• 1940 to 1959

• 1960 to 1979

• 1980 to 1999

• 2000 to present

Bogue Chitto Chapter #132
Order of the Eastern Star
Chartered ?
Defunct ?

BOGUE CHITTO CHAPTER #263
ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR

CHARTERED: April 22, 1926
MEETS: Second Mondays @ 7:00 PM
413 Monticello Street
Bogue Chitto, MS