Nice story about Jack White and Masonic Hall and also nice clip about Jack White the guitarist.
The Mason's seem to be a waning organization. Is there a recommended RI thread on the Mason's someone can kick to the top?
I once lived about two miles from the oldest (or one of the oldest) Masonic Lodge in California, Old Shasta Lodge built in 1853. Old Shasta is sort of a ghost town in that it was a small brick city that served the northwestern California gold mines and was the eastern terminus of the trail from the Humboldt county coast to the Central Valley. Old Shasta declined in importance because the railroad was located 6 miles east at Redding. Old Shasta includes an old brick main street maintained as a California State Historical Park. Old Shasta and Weaverville 45 miles west are like the larger gold rush towns of the Sierra Nevada and Jacksonville, OR (visited by robertpaulson) in that they were built of brick and not subject to the repeated burning of other gold rush era settlements built of wood.

also more at
https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/tf1f59n6b1/