Sunday, August 21, 2011

Vincil Flag

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Cosmos Lodge 282 claims to be the first Masonic Lodge west of the Mississippi regularly to display the American Flag at meetings.  In 1896, it began displaying this 44-star flag, when former Missouri Grand Master John D. Vincil (1868-1869) presented it to the Lodge.  The flag is on display at the Masonic Museum in Columbia, Missouri.

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