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City: La Grange

30018 Yosemite, , , , 95329-0024

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30018 Yosemite Blvd., , , , 95329

Lafayette Lodge #65 was established in 1857 in the Gold Rush era town of La Grange, settled by French prospectors in 1848, on the banks of the Tuolumne River. Our IOOF Hall, built in 1881, is listed on the National Register. Early La Grange history included all types of Gold mining, from panning, sluicing, hard-rock mining, destructive hydraulic mining to mighty mechanized gold dredging. La Grange is also the site of the earliest California irrigation system, with the diversion of the La Grange ...

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U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, who served from 1959 to 2010, was an Odd Fellow. His long tenure in Congress reflected the order’s emphasis on civic responsibility.

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