Concord Lodge No. 77, A.F. & A.M., was organized in 1850, receiving dispensation on Nov. 15 of that year, and was chartered Jan. 22, 1851, with 14 members: E.A. Geeter, N.M. Goode, N. Jones, J.B. Long, W.H. Luckie, J.R. McCartey, Neal McLane, S.S. Morris, W.C. Moseley, J.H. Price, R.E. Rhodes, J.L. Smith, G.W. Whitmore, and A.B. Wright. The lodge first met in McCartey’s house. The nine-acre site here was donated on April 28, 1853, by Spencer C. Wadlington, owner of the original Republic of Texas Grant, to trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South: S.F. Allston, T.C. Bentley, W.C. Crawford, W.D. Jefferson, B.H. Martin, J.S. Powell, A.B. Stone, and Oliver Thompson. A two story building was erected on the site and for many years was used by both the church and the lodge. Adjacent land became the community cemetery, whose oldest stone marks the grave of Ophelia Polk Swanson, who died on March 15, 1850. The lodge was demised in 1880, Concord Church later disbanded, and the building stood until the 1930s. In 1970 the site was deeded by the Texas annual conference of the United Methodist Church, South Central jurisdiction, to the Concord Cemetery Association, chartered that same year.