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The first lodge in Pitt County and the first Masonic lodge in the State was at Crown Point, Pitt County in 1766. Thomas Cooper established this lodge. It was at Crown Point Lodge that George Washington spent the night in Pitt County during his 1791 tour. The next lodge was established before 1822 in Greenville and was known as the Sharon Lodge #78. After the Civil War, Sharon Lodge disbanded and the members transferred to Rountrees Lodge. The next lodge appears in 1874 as the Woodson Lodge Number 16 Knights of Pythias. In 1888, Greenville then had five lodges. The Greenville Masonic Lodge had a school. The Red Man Lodge formed in 1903, the Winterville Lodge formed in 1904 and the new Sharon Lodge formed in 1911.
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It has been a long held belief that the New Bern Masonic Lodge was the first one in North Carolina in 1771, but Thomas Cooper chartered the first Masonic lodge in Pitt County at Crown Point in 1766. Crown Point Lodge was located upstairs the home of Col. Shadrach Allen. President George Washington on his Southern Tour, stayed the night at Col. Shadrach Allen’ home In 1791. In 1901, James Hanrahan, a grandson of Col. Shadrach Allen, recalled what his grandmother called the “Mason’s Room,” from which children and servants were kept away by the stories of “butting goats, coffins and other hobgoblins.” The second known lodge, Sharon Lodge was established before 1822. The Greenville Lodge #284 formed in 1868. The Woodson Lodge Number #16, Knights of Pythias, was founded in 1874. In 1888, Greenville had five lodges. Many lodges emerged in Pitt County after 1900.
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