{Page image} {Begin page no. 9} "In the year 1892 {Begin inserted text} {Begin handwritten} {End handwritten} {End inserted text} the Masonic Lodge was located at {Begin deleted text} [?] {End deleted text} {Begin inserted text} {Begin handwritten} Lott {End handwritten} {End inserted text} . This Lodge (NO. 330) was organized at Carolina in {Begin deleted text} the years 1970 {End deleted text} {Begin inserted text} {Begin handwritten} 1880 {End handwritten} {End inserted text} . This Lodge organized and began its meetings in the upper story of a building which was also used as a {Begin deleted text} Presbyrterian cunrch {End deleted text} {Begin inserted text} {Begin handwritten} Presbyterian church {End handwritten} {End inserted text} and schoolhouse. Some of the charter members and early members were, Robert Morris Key, to whom the dispensation of Carolina lodge was delivered until the meeting of the next Grand Lodge which gave this lodge its charter. Robert Morris Key was the first Master of the lodge; J.D. {Begin deleted text} [?] {End deleted text} {Begin inserted text} {Begin handwritten} [?] {End handwritten} {End inserted text} , Senior Warden {Begin inserted text} {Begin handwritten} {End handwritten} {End inserted text} and A.G. Mitchell, Junior Warden. Other early members were Geo. W. Storey, James H. Ball, Andrew Daffin, D.M. Currie, W.T. Wiggin, J.J. Rogers, J.A. Gardner, James Jordan and others. "This lodge found most of its members in 1886-87 living in the {Begin deleted text} communit {End deleted text} {Begin inserted text} {Begin handwritten} community {End handwritten} {End inserted text} of Rupee, Texas, (now known as the Live Oak community), where Dr Belo had a store. So it was then moved from Carolina to Rupee. Other members at this time were A.F. Belo, M.A. Hayes, P.P. Hodges , Mr Priest and others. In the year that the town of Lott began {Begin inserted text} {Begin handwritten} {End handwritten} {End inserted text} many of its members moved to Lott, and as the town grew there were many members from Durango and they all decided to move the Lodge, to Lott in 1892. But to this day it is known as Carolina Lodge NO.330. A.F. A.M.