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Description
Officers of the Danish Brotherhood, Lodge #250 Aften Røden (Evening Red), Falmouth. Lodge #250 was chartered March 21, 1905, with a membership of 21 brothers.
Members were mostly farmers from the Falmouth and Cumberland area. Within a year they had built their own meeting hall, with a stage and dance floor on the first floor and dining on the second floor. Lodge #250 was the fourth lodge to be chartered in Maine.
The other lodges were Lodge #112 in Portland (chartered April 30, 1898), Lodge #199 in Rumford Falls (chartered September 16, 1904), and Lodge #201 in Westbrook (chartered November 1, 1904).
About This Item
- Title: Danish Brotherhood officers, Falmouth, ca. 1908
- Creation Date: circa 1908
- Subject Date: circa 1908
- Location: Falmouth, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: 2010.0217
- Collection: Philip L. Stanhope Collection
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Aften Roden. Lodge #250 (Falmouth, Me.)
- Clubs--Maine--Falmouth
- Danish Americans--Maine
- Organizations--Maine--Falmouth
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