Lodges and Social Groups

The image shows a historic two-story stone building with shuttered windows and a sign, likely an old store or inn. — In Mokelumne Hill, the I.O.O.F. (International Order of Odd Fellows) added their third floor meeting room to this stone building in 1861.

Organizations from the IOOF and the Masons to E Clampus Vitus and the Pythians were important to the development of a sense of community in the area’s early days. Such fraternal organizations brought men together to help create the society they envisioned. Many of them continue today.