DRIPPING SPRINGS — The Rambo Masonic Lodge will be celebrating 150 years of camaraderie June 14 with an open house for the community.
According to secretary Lynn Alderson, the lodge is part of the Freemasons of Texas, which stems back to 1733, when the men’s fraternal organization settled in New England. Though, the Dripping Springs location began prior to the city itself.
“In 1875, there wasn’t a Dripping Springs,” said Alderson. “What happened was, there was a lodge in — now it’d be South Austin … called Onion Creek Lodge. Some of the members that live out [in Dripping Springs], they received a charter and it was at the Friendship Baptist Church in Cedar Valley, Texas … So, that’s the reason the Rambo Lodge was named after a family that owned a bunch of land out here and they gave the land for that friendship church and that’s where the Rambo Lodge came from.”
