Masonic Lodge

The building at 116 North High Street has had two main functions since its construction in 1877—as a school house and a Masonic Lodge. Originally, the building had been erected in 1877-as a school for Hebron children. At the time there had been two other small schools, both wooden structures, before this school was built on North High Street. The lot was purchased on August 18, 1876, for $300 by the Trustees of Union School District. Its sturdy foundation and 8-inch thick walls still stand as perfect today as the day it was built. The village was just seventeen years old when Hebron's Masonic Temple Lodge was chartered. Hebron Lodge was organized on May 28, 1844, and a charter was granted on October 25, 1844. The first Lodge meetings were members' home until they purchased a two-story building on 101 West Main Street in 1870. This was Hebron's Masonic Temple until the year 1915 when the Lodge purchased the former school house at 116 North Street.

Image 1: School house with children. Former students later recalled the old pot-bellied stove, and taking turns to go with the water bucket to the well and trips to the outhouse.

Image 2: The school was built in 1877 by a Zanesville contractor, V. E. Kinser. Local brick layer, Abram Swartz, laid the bricks.

Image 3: The building that was the school in Hebron around the turn of the century is now the home of the Masonic Lodge 116.