Shelbyville - Shelby County, Ky.

                                    Historical Remarks

  This Lodge and Lexington Lodge No. 1 are the only Lodges of the original five that constituted the grand Lodge of  Kentucky in  1800, which have been continuously at work since that date.  The following, dated July 10^th, 1800, appears on the records of the Grand Lodge of Virginia.  “A dispensation was issued and signed by the R. W. Deputy Grand Master, to authorize the opening of a lodge in Shelbyville, in the state of  Kentucky, appointing Simon Adams Master, James Wardlaw Senior Warden and William J. Tunst Junior Warden, the brethren in the petition, and having made choice of a name already appropriated, a blank space was left in the Dispensation for them to fill up with a name inappropriate. The Grand Secretary of Virginia says, “ From advices subsequently received it appears that the said lodge is called Abraham Lodge.”  This lodge was working at Shelbyville under the above Dispensation at the assemblage of the Convention of September 8^th, 1800, but was allowed to have representation the rein: and at the first session of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, October 16^th, 1800, was recognized as Solomon’s Lodge #5.   For more information click here.