Latest Additions to the Library and Museum

The Robert M. Richmond Memorial Library and Museum has received several donations, and purchased several books with quality content.

The museum has received many interesting items from a family donation from the UK which includes documents from the mid-1700s concerning Lodge meetings. Th is was a very interesting insight into the early workings of the Lodge and a unique addition for our museum.

Another wonderful donation was a collection of papers from W.B. Jack Armstrong, a member of Research Lodge of Oregon No. 198. Th is collection has many of the papers he authored and notes on important issues of the day in our Jurisdiction and others. The digitization of these papers is in progress and will be a wonderful tool for future Masonic researchers.

The contents of the museum cabinets are in early planning stages for new content. The items that have been on display for more than a year need to be rotated periodically. Th is allows museum items to be preserved longer without noticeable deterioration. The next rotation will include how our Masonic and Eastern Star Home began. Stay tuned.

The ongoing Digital Scanning Project within the museum and the Lodge Czur Scanning Project, which has been written about extensively in the past, are moving full speed ahead with 2,513 pages digitally copied so far for 2023 just in the museum.

If your Lodge would like to be placed on the list for the loaning of the Czur Scanning Project, call the Library and Museum Committee.

If your Lodge has digitally copied any of your records, please consider sharing them with the Library and Museum Committee for archiving. These digital records are very important to our history as a Jurisdiction. These can also be uploaded within Grand View to share with your members.

Always remember the Robert M. Richmond Memorial Library and Museum is all of ours.

If your Lodge would like to schedule a special private tour, let the Library and Museum Committee know and we will start the process.

Fraternally, Johnny J. Edwards Library and Museum Chairman