Clinton-Essex District
The number of lodges currently active in the Clinton-Essex district (per Grand Lodge)
What is Seven?
The Grand Lodge Library and Museum is named after him.
Who is Br. Robert R. Livingston?
The year Fraternal Lodge was chartered
What is 2003?
Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling, this 1975 film staring Sean Connery, starts with the narrator agreeing to deliver Peachey Carnehan's message because both men are masons.
What is 'The Man Who Would Be King'?
Clinton-Essex masons mostly belong to this Chapter that wears a 'Fez'
What is Oriental Shrine?
The Masonic region the Clinton-Essex District is located in.
What is Hudson-Champlain?
Former Governor of New York, a mason, and known as the 'Father of Education in NY'.
Who is Br. Dewitt Clinton?
The year Ausable River Lodge 149 was originally chartered
What is 1849?
In this long running cartoon series Homer joins the secret society the Stonecutters.
What is 'The Simpsons'?
This was the closest NY Scottish Rite Valley to Plattsburgh NY.
What is the Valley of Elizabethtown?
The earliest chartered lodge in the Clinton District.
What is Clinton Lodge 151 (chartered 3 Dec 1806)?
First American to orbit the Earth in space, received the Grand Lodge Distinguished Service award (1980)
Who is Br. John Glenn?
The number of lodges that merged to become Fraternal Lodge 155
What is three?
This Movie, starring Nicholas Cage, references freemasonry multiple times during the plot. Though its fictitious, it portrayed the fraternity in a positive light.
What is 'National Treasure'?
The two Royal Arch Chapters that have existed in Clinton Country
What is Plattsburgh Chapter 39 and Adirondack Chapter 234?
The earliest chartered Lodge in the Essex District
What is Essex Lodge #152? (chartered 14 Feb 1806)
Most recent President who was also a freemason
Who is Br. Gerald R. Ford?
The Clinton-Essex Lodge with the oldest active charter
What is Mount Defiance Lodge 794? (1887)
In this TV Series one of the main characters, Jamie Fraser, is made a mason and there are multiple references to the fraternity.
What is 'Outlander'?
The number of degrees in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of the Northern Masonic Jurisdication
What is 29?
The original petition date (year) for Clinton Lodge 151
What is (25 Oct) 1802?
NY Brother who founded the Boy Scout movement in the United States
Who is Br. Daniel Carter Beard?
The number of Clinton-Essex lodges that closed mostly due to the effects of the Morgan Affair
What is 10?
This 2023 film is about a series of murders of Osage Nation Members and production used a real 1924 Masonic Lodge when shooting the film
What is 'Killers of The Flower Moon'?
The Cryptic Council that met in Rouses Point NY
What is Tyrian Council #43?