Piscataquis Lodge #44 - Milo, Maine

01/12/2024

12/10/2022

We’ll write it down on a post-it note.

05/25/2022

Who’s got the bigger smiles? The students or the Masons? 😀

05/11/2022

The building that housed our lodge for so many years may be gone - our commitment to making our community a better place will never go away.

01/15/2022

Piscataquis Lodge along with the Grand Lodge of Maine is happy to present a check to the Penquis Valley Community Playground in the amount of $1500.

Pictured are Master Bradley Harris, Andrew Walker, and 5th Masonic District Deputy Grand Master Jef Hamlin.

05/26/2021

“The most beautiful thing in the world is a child’s smile. The next best thing? Knowing that you are the reason behind it.”

05/15/2021

Brothers and Bikes -

The members of Piscataquis Lodge #44 with 34 brand new bikes and helmets assembled and ready to be awarded to local youth in the Annual “Bikes for Books” program.

04/06/2021

PISCATAQUIS LODGE #44 - History 1822 – 2008
102 YEARS 1906 – 2008 at the Bank Block later renamed the Masonic Block.

On December 19th, 1822, Master Masons met at Sebec Village to discuss the advisability of establishing a Lodge of Free Masons in that vicinity. Other meetings followed and on October 28, 1823, Piscataquis Lodge No. 44, A. F. & A. M. received its charter from the Grand Lodge of Maine, the first Lodge of Free Masons in Piscataquis County.

At the first election held March 11, 1823, Moses Greenleaf was Worshipful Master.

Piscataquis Lodge was at Sebec Village from 1823 to 1855, but in 1855 so many of its members resided in Milo, the Grand Lodge gave permission for the removal of the lodge to Milo.

The first meeting in Milo was held in what was then called “Temperance Hall;” but later in 1855 they met at a hall on Riverside Street owned by Russell Kittredge. The Lodge purchased this hall in 1863, but sold it later for $300.00. In 1879 the Lodge met for the first time in their new hall, the second story of Chase’s Hall. Here they held their meetings until June 1, 1906.

In 1906, they bought part of the second and all of the third story of the Bank Block, holding its first meeting in its new hall July 11, 1906. The Lodge has since purchased the rest of the Bank Block and it is now called the Masonic Block located on Main Street.

The Masons meet the second Friday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Order of the Eastern Star, Aldworth Chapter, The women’s group associated with the Masons meets the second Monday of the month. Order of the Rainbow (for girls) is a function of Brownville’s Pleasant River Lodge # 163. They meet the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month. The Demolay (for boys) was disbanded due to lack of participants.

The Masons sold and moved in 2008 to outer Park Street.

(Photo - Milo celebrated its 175th anniversary in January of 1998)

03/02/2021

“No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.”