FREEMASONS OF MICHIGAN

- Site Map

[ Lodge Menu ]

Home

Lodge Officers

Lodge Location

Join a Lodge

Masonic Lodge

Share The Secret

Michigan Child ID

For More Info on Joining

Our Calendar

Perry Lodge No. 350

M-52, 702 N Main St
Perry , MI 48872

google map

County: Shiawassee
Bus. mtg: 1st Thu of the mo.
Time: 7:30 pm
Charter date: 01/29/1879
Districts - DDI/BGP: 18 /18

Master of the Lodge:
Michael McCardell

Secretary:
Richard Burlingame
ph: (989)723-4350

Why are we called "Freemasons" ?
There are many theories: a man was a Freemason because his ancestors were not slaves nor was he a slave; he was so called because he was free within his Guild, or free of the Guild's laws and could thus "travel in foreign countries" and work where he would; he was a Freemason because he worked in freestone, which is any stone which can be cut, smoothed, carved in any direction; he was free when he had passed his apprenticeship and became a Fellow of the Craft; he was free when he had left the status of serf or villein and legally became free. Probably at one time or another masons were called Freemasons for any of these reasons or for all of them. The consensus leans to the theory that the Freemason was such because of his skill, knowledge and abilities which set him free of those conditions, laws, rules and customs which circumscribed masons of lesser abilities in the Cathedral building age.