23/01/2026
We had a great time celebrating 140 years chartered as a lodge under the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Florida! Our Mayor wrote us up a proclamation naming January 20th “Indian River no. 90 Day”
We’re are incredibly grateful for this community and all those men and women who helped keep our lodge strong over the 140 years of our existence. We are built on the shoulders of giants.
Brothers, today we gather to commemorate a remarkable milestone — the 140th anniversary of Indian River Lodge No. 90, chartered on January 20, 1886, here in Titusville, Florida.
Our lodge was named for the Indian River that runs the length of Brevard County, and like that river, our history flows directly alongside the growth of this community. From the beginning, Indian River Lodge was not merely a meeting place — it was a gathering of leaders, pioneers, and builders whose influence shaped Titusville and the surrounding region.
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The Early Homes of Indian River Lodge
The earliest meetings of our lodge were held in the two-story framed courthouse built in 1881 on Palm Avenue, just north of the sheriff’s residence and jail. Meetings later moved to the Indian River Hotel, later known as the Dixie Hotel, and at the homes of various brothers, until a permanent Masonic Hall could be constructed.
That hall was completed in 1905 on the northwest corner of Julia Street and Hopkins Avenue and was dedicated by the Grand Master of Florida, Most Worshipful Thomas G. Hutchinson. After the building was lost to fire in 1915, the lodge continued its work in several locations — the Scobie Building, later Ford Hardware, the Davis Drug Store, and even the third floor of the old Bayview Elementary School — before finally settling in its present home at U.S. Highway 1 and Garden Street in 1953, where Indian River Lodge continues to meet today.
