History of Green Grove Lodge No. 107

Green Grove Lodge No. 107 was chartered in 1856 at the Green Grove Post Office, a quarter mile west of the old Cadron settlement on the Old Wire Road. The surrounding community of Green Grove at that time consisted of a church, a store, an inn, and the post office that served the wider Cadron area.

In the lodge's earliest years, stated meetings often ran two days and drew Masons from the surrounding communities of Cadron, East Fork, Pleasant Grove, and Round Mountain. Remarkably, the lodge continued to meet throughout the Civil War, even as its own members were divided in their loyalties.

A Lodge on the Move

Over its first half-century, Green Grove Lodge met in a series of halls as the surrounding population shifted toward the new railroad town of Conway:

• 1856 — Green Grove Post Office
• 1865 — East Fork Meeting House, and later a meeting house near the mouth of Cadron Creek
• 1866 — King's gin house, north of King's Bridge
• 1871 — Second story of the Methodist Mission building, corner of Front and Mill Streets, Conway
• 1884 — South Front Street, shared with the Royal Arch Chapter and the Knights of Pythias, after the Mission building burned
• Late 1880s — Shettles' Gin, Front Street
• Late 1890s — Hardin and Harton building
• 1906–1976 — A two-story brick lodge hall at the corner of Front and Smith Streets
• 1976–present — 144 Harkrider Street, a former Kentucky Fried Chicken building

Notable Leaders

Captain Bryant Vann King served as Worshipful Master in 1865. Dr. Joseph Steven Westerfield, originally a member of Greenbrier Lodge No. 290, was elected Worshipful Master in 1895 and served in that office for over three decades, until 1926. Dr. Westerfield donated the land on which the lodge's 1906 building was constructed.

In 1938, the lodge held an anniversary observance back at the original Green Grove site, dedicating a stone marker to commemorate its founding.

Today

Green Grove Lodge No. 107 remains chartered under the Grand Lodge of Arkansas, Free & Accepted Masons, and continues to meet at 144 Harkrider Street in Conway — in continuous operation for well over a century and a half.

Historical details above were compiled from the Faulkner County Historical Society archives. Officers are encouraged to review this page for accuracy and expand it with the lodge's own records and photographs.