History of Dublin Lodge #504 AF&AM

That beautiful spring day, May 12, 1878, the sparsely settled town of Dublin, Texas, was closing down. Saddle horses lined the hitching rails. Canvas-covered wagons, chuck wagons, buckboards, vehicles of all western types were assembled near the sigh - "Dublin Livery". Here T. C. Murphy of William Armstrong Lodge $455 called a constituted lodge. Subject - Dispensation. He was joined by fellow Masons from the small communities nearby. O. B. Atkinson was the first Worshipful Master. He was a charter member of the lodge under dispensation. The charter was granted December 15, 1879. The fist Lodge Room was rented for $8.00 per month, and a yearly budget for books, paper and candles totaled $9.40.

Victor Gaines was the Worshipful Master in 1976 when the present lodge building was erected.

Free Masonry is far removed from all that is trivial, selfish and ungodly. its ceremonies are by no means of a light or trifling character, but are of profound significance and deep solemnity. They have existed without material changes from remote antiquity. Its structure rests upon the indestructible foundation of the Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood of Man and the Immortality of the Soul.