{"nrhp_refnum":"06000736","name":"Chickamauga Lodge No. 221, Free and Accepted Masons, Prince Hall Affiliate","other_names":["Chickamauga Masonic Lodge No. 221"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1378 GA 341 S","address_restricted":false,"city":"Chickamauga","county":"Walker County","state":"GA","lat":34.85684475800008,"lon":-85.30518716199998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Black","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, rectangular wood-frame Masonic lodge hall at 1378 Highway 341 South, about three miles south of Chickamauga, Walker County, Georgia. Lodge members built it between 1921 and 1924.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a good, intact example of a member-built 1920s lodge, with its second-floor meeting room and original handcrafted officers' stations. It is also the only remaining African-American lodge hall in Walker County and served the community's fraternal, veteran and civic groups.","narrative":"Chickamauga Lodge No. 221 is a two-story, wood-frame Masonic hall on Highway 341 South in Walker County, Georgia. Members of the African-American lodge built it themselves between 1921 and 1924, and it has been used for lodge purposes ever since. A meeting room on the second floor, reached by a separate outside stair, keeps its 1924 floor and original handcrafted wooden stations for the lodge officers. The exterior was covered with red rolled asphalt siding in 1952, when plumbing and heating were added. The lodge was founded about 1915-1916 and first met in the nearby District Hill School. The hall also hosted an African-American Veterans of Foreign Wars camp in the 1940s and an Order of the Eastern Star chapter chartered in 1944. Lodge members supplied labor for local schools and churches and helped needy children and widows during the segregation era. It is the only surviving African-American lodge hall in the county.","period_of_significance":"1924-1956","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a meeting hall; the form notes the building leans slightly because of foundation deterioration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:42.910371-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/06000736.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000736/f7cebfd087-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000736/f7cebfd087-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Andrew Jameson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChickamaugaMasonicLodge.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Jameson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ChickamaugaMasonicLodge.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93209814","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickamauga_Lodge_No._221,_Free_and_Accepted_Masons,_Prince_Hall_Affiliate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5096184"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/walker-county/chickamauga-lodge-no-221-free-and-accepted-masons-prince-hall-affiliate-06000736/"}