Established in 1823, Wayne Lodge #25 is the first lodge established in northern Indiana. Our original charter still hangs in our lodge room today and is a unique piece of history in it’s own right.
Our dispensation was granted to General John Tipton who earned his rank serving in the Indian Wars in the Northwest Territory. General Tipton went on to be come a U.S. Senator for the state of Indiana.
Further study of our lodge history reveals many familiar names to anyone who has driven the streets of modern day Fort Wayne. Streets like Ewing and Hannah are named after members and former masters of our lodge.
Wayne Lodge would go on to become the mother lodge for most of the Masonic Bodies which exist in Allen County – it’s reach even extending to Logansport where three of it’s first officers were members of Wayne Lodge, and the Lodge itself is named Tipton Lodge after General John Tipton.
Thousands of men have passed through our doors and we are proud to call each of them, brother.
The Mission of Freemasonry is to promote a way of life that binds like minded men in a worldwide brotherhood that transcends all religious, ethnic, cultural, social and educational differences; by teaching the great principle of Brotherly Love, relief and truth; and, by the outward expression of these through its fellowship, its compassion and its concern, to find ways in which to serve God, family, country neighbor and self.
