There was no Masonic organization in Plymouth from 1821 to 1825. On August 21 of the year last named, William M. Jackson and fifteen other resident Masons petitioned the Grand Lodge for a Charter for a new Lodge by the name of Plymouth Lodge.

The Charter was granted September 14, 1825, and the first meeting was held on the 19th in Masons' Hall, nine members being present. Charles May was Master, Ephraim Morton. Senior Warden, and John Tribble, Junior Warden. It was voted to borrow two hundred dollars to procure and prepare a hall.

At the meeting of the Lodge held April 17, 1826, it was voted to hold, the meetings of the Lodge in Pilgrim Hall, a committee having reported that this hall could he secured for twenty-four dollars per year.

After working under Dispensation for one year in accordance with the usual practice, the Lodge was formally Constituted on September 6, 1826, by Most Worshipful Caleb Butler, Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts.

At eleven o'clock in the forenoon the Brethren accompanied by the Brigade Band, of Boston, proceeded to the old church then located on the site of the present First Church, where the Lodge was Constituted and its officers installed.

Shortly after the 100th anniversary, it was decided that the rooms on Main Street had outlived their usefulness and that larger and better quarters were desirable. It is to be assumed that the confining quarters must have been a major subject of discussion as the decision to move was made without opposition. At the meeting on September 28, 1925, Right Worshipful Edward C.

Holmes reported for the building committee concerning the purchase of property. At the meeting of May 23, 1926, it was finally voted to purchase the Bradley property on Court Street, next to Memorial Hall, for $18,000. This consisted of a fine old, two story dwelling on an appropriate lot. This was the site of the Plymouth Masonic Temple in April 1975.

In 1986, the lodge purchased a parcel of land and built a brand new masonic building at 116 South Meadow Road in Plymouth which the lodge uses today.

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