North Star Lodge (Prince Hall)

CTL-E-0495 · Organization · other · 1852–present

Verified evidence grade of this record

North Star Lodge No. 12/No.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-206; source research type(s): Fraternal order. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

https://storage.googleapis.com/production-ipower-v1-0-9/499/1028499/TPgDVf7C/8723651ec4a342b49442818d09ac3bd8?fileName=27_2017Special85.pdf (primary source)

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