The organizational meeting for this Masonic lodge was held on February 7, 1857, on the second story of H.N. Walcott's store building in the village of Mantua, with District Deputy Grand Master J.J. Harrison officiating and J.M. Enloe, W.A. Portman, J.L. Leslie, W.M. Akens, A.J. McDonough, A.C. White, H.N. Walcott, J.L. Lovejoy, G.W. Strother, and J.S. Stewart attending the first meeting. Other charter members included younger Scott McKinney, who had laid out the townsite several years earlier, and James W. Throckmorton, who later served as Governor of Texas. A two-story lodge building was completed in 1859, with the Masons meeting on the upper floor while the first story housed a private school, the Mantua Seminary. After Van Alstyne was established on the Houston and Texas Central Railroad in 1872, most of the businesses and other establishments in Mantua, including the lodge, moved to the new town. Members then held meetings in various locations until 1898, when they purchased the Carter building on the Town Square. In 1976 the lodge moved to its current location, and it has provided valuable service to schools, churches, and needy persons while remaining an important part of the area's history.