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Directions: At the 321 - 105 intersection south on 105, 2nd stoplight turn left, at top of the hill turn right on Temple Drive. Street dead ends at the lodge.

1878 T.P. Adams	1928 A Dayton Wilson	1976 Everett M. Widner
1879 T.P. Adams	1929 W.J. Farthing	1977 Robert Howard Ward
1880 J.W. Horton	1930 Dean Swift	1978 Earnest Dean Dancey
1881 J.B. Taylor	1931 Dean Swift	1979 Fred Lynn Castle
1882 J.W. Horton	1932 Dean Swift	1980 Steve Reece Castle
1883 John T. Shull	1933 D.C. Mast	1981 Franklin Edward Templeton
1884 J.W. Horton	1934 D.C. Mast	1982 John James Bond
1885	1935 Martin L. Herman	1983 George Edward Baker
1886	1936 A Dayton Wilson	1984 Robert Edward Denton
1887 Jordon Cook	1937 A Dayton Wilson	1985 Guy Ellis Cline III
1888 Jordon Cook	1938 A Dayton Wilson	1986 Gregory Alton Cook
1890 J.C.Trivette	1939 George G. Farthing	1987 Brian Alan Newell
1891 W.S. Farthing	1940 W.W. Williams	1988 Homer Carter Lentz
1892 J.W. Horton	1941 Richard E. Kelly	1989 Gary Robert Herman
1893 John T. Shull	1942 Eugene Graybel	1990 William Lewis Lentz
1894 W.S. Farthing	1943 Lee H. Stout	1991 Robert Presnell Haas
1895 J.W. Horton	1944 T.M. Greer	1992 Thomas Gerald Tester
1896 C.A. Church	1945 T.M. Greer	1993 Troy Clayton Perry
1897 W.S. Farthing	1946 J.T.C Wright	1994 W James Richard Holshouser
1898 J.J. Mast	1947 Dean B. Bingham	1995 James B. Graham
1899 J.W. Horton	1948 A.R. Smith	1996 Randall Leroy Beane
1900 J.W. Horton	1949 W.W. Williams	1997 Don Kenneth Ball
1901 A.S. Adams	1950 W.W. Williams	1998 James Randy Vines
1902 J.M. Shull	1951 J.E. Clay	1999 T. Alan Boone
1903 J.W. Horton	1952 John Daniel Cook, Sr	2000 Richard Lee Elmore
1904 J.W. Horton	1953 Hoyle Hampton Davis Sr	2001 Dolphus Ned Lyons
1905 J.W. Horton	1954 J.D. Winbarger	2002 Alvin Leonard Hardy
1906 J.W. Horton	1955 James D. Shoemake	2003 L. Ronald Bumgarner
1907 J.W. Horton	1956 Paul Grey Brown	2004 E. Dean Coffey
1908 T.C. Baird	1957 Floyd M. Brewer	2005 Hoyt Combs
1909 T.P Adams	1958 Bernard W. Stallings	2006John Edmisten
1910 J.M. Shull	1959 Howard Jewell Williams	2007
1911 J.M. Shull	1960 Irvin Watson Carpenter	2008
1912 J.W. Horton	1961 Bennie Baxter Yates	2009
1913 J.W. Horton	1962 Dewitt Brown, Jr	2010
1914 J.W. Horton	1963 William Edmund Fulmer	2011
1915 J.W. Horton	1964 James Conley Greene, Jr	2012
1916 J.W. Horton	1965 Fred B. Castle	2013
1917 A. Dayton Wilson	1966 Richard William Winkler	2014
1918 J.M. Shull	1967 Eddie Paul Norris	2015
1919 D.C. Mast	1968 Melvin Jennings Norris	2016
1920 Don J. Horton	1969 Cannon G. Ward	2017
1921 T.C. Baird	1970 Grant Robert Ayers, Sr	2018
1922 W.J. Farthing	1971 George Edward Baker	2019
1923 W.J. Farthing	1972 Harold Gray Farthing	2020
1924 W.J. Farthing	1973 Robert Max Greer	2021
1925 W.J. Farthing	1974 Everett Edward Cole	2022
1926 Samuel F. Horton	1975 Elm Franklin Hicks	2023

Here is a breif history below of Snow Lodge #363, we are presently updating and will make the update available as soon as it is finished.

Snow Lodge #363

Post Office Box 2672

Highway 105

Boone, N.C. 28607

Snow Lodge #363 was originally chartered in Sugar Grove, N. C. in 1878. The charter members were as follows:

T.P. Adams WM
J.W. Horton SW
J.B. Taylor JW
F.P. Mast J.W. Smith
J.T. Shull C.W. Farthing
A.S. Adams B.J. Councill
J.P. Councill J.N. Mast
J.S. Lewis David Adams
G.W. Hayes Dudley Farthing

The original lodge building still stands a few hundred yards from the Cove Creek intersection on old highway 321 and 603.

The lodge was held together during the great depression by Don Shull who paid the grand lodge dues from his own pension when others could not contribute. During this time the lodge in Boone, called Watauga Lodge #273, lost it’s charter in 1935.

In 1945 the membership who resided west of Rich Mountain voted to move the lodge to Boone in order to keep it alive. J.T.C. Wright, A.R. Smith, T.M. Greer, Russell Hodges, Clyde Greene, Lee Stout and Ed Clay were instrumental in accomplishing this move.

The first Location of the lodge on moving to Boone was to the Junior Order hall located above the Western Auto store on King Street, presently Watauga Savings and Loan The lodge rented the hall until 1949 when a hall was purchased from W.R. Winkler on the corner of King Street and Water Street. The building was secured "on a cost plus basis with 1/2 interest in the lot for $4441. The structure was roughed in and completed by the lodge. Mr. Winkler was very generous and did not add any profit and contributed valuable materials and assistance in the completion of the building." The lodge owned an interest in a picnic area in Boone and sold it for $900 to help pay for the new building. The picnic area land is the mountain where the Appalachian State University student apartments are located now.

A new temple was begun in 1977 on land donated by Richard Winkler near the present Watauga High School on highway 105. The cornerstone was laid M.W. J.E. Watson, Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina. The master of Snow Lodge at that time was Robert Ward. The building was dedicated on Thursday, October 26, 1978 by M.W. Jacob C. Goodman, Grand Master of Masons in North Carolina while Ernest Dancy was master of the lodge.

Snow Lodge is proud to be the sponsor of Hope Chapter #1 of the Order of the Eastern Star. Hope Chapter was the first Eastern Star chapter in the state of North Carolina. Mrs. John F. Harden was the first Worthy Matron. "The chapter was chartered from Indianapolis. A young lawyer, John Morphew, went to Indiana and took the degrees and came back to Boone and organized Hope Chapter with about 30 members." The charter was lost and Snow Chapter reclaimed the charter for Hope Chapter though the efforts of Ruby Weston and Melvin and Rosa Lee Norris in 1976.

Presently Snow Lodge enjoys a strong membership of approximately 240 blue lodge masons. The temple contains a large dining hall, kitchen, and lodge room. Future plans include the paving of Temple Drive, connecting the new parking lot with the Watauga High School driveway.

Respectfully,

Greg Cooke, W.M.
Brian Newell, S.W.
Tom Templeton, J.W.
August 21^st, 1986

T. P. Adams

First Worshipful Master

of Snow Lodge #363 A. F.& A. M.

1878

Born March 14, 1846, Tarlton Pulaski Adams raised cattle in Zionville. He served the Confederacy during the American Civil War, having been captured by Union forces and imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio. As many veterans did, Mr. Adams walked home from Ohio to North Carolina upon the Union victory. Roughly four years later, at age twenty-three, he petitioned Watauga Lodge #273, A. F. & A. M. to receive the Degrees of Masonry for a combined fee of twenty-three dollars. The lodge favored his request and initiated Brother Adams on May 28, I869, passed him on June 19,1869,and raised him to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason on August 13,1869. He demitted from his lodge on December 27, 1877.

Brother Adams resumed his fraternal involvement when the Grand Lodge of North Carolina Masons chartered Snow Lodge #363, A. F. & A. M. on December 4,1878. The new lodge chose him to serve as the first Worshipful Master through I879. He served again in the East in 1909. His son, Alfred, remembers his fathers continuing contributions to the lodge as he coached new brethren through the Degrees.

Beyond his Masonic work, Brother Adams chaired the Watauga County Board of Education for forty-four years and found time to serve on the county commission. He worshiped with the Cove Creek and Pleasant Grove Baptist Churches. Brother T. P. Adams traveled to that "undiscovered country" on March 1,1922. Because of inclement weather, he could not receive a Masonic burial.

Brother Ken McFadyen