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LODGE TRESTLEBOARD

The Trestle-Board is defined to be the board upon which the Master inscribes the designs by which the Craft are to be directed in their labors. The French and German Freemasons have confounded the Trestle-Board with the Tracing-Board; and Doctor Oliver (Landmarks I, page 132) has not avoided the error. The two things are entirely different. The trestle is a framework for a table-in Scotch, trest; the Trestle-Board is the board placed for convenience of drawing on that frame. It contains nothing but a few diagrams, usually geometrical figures. The Tracing-Board is a picture formerly drawn on the floor of the Lodge, whence it was called The Floor-Cloth or Carpet. It contains a delineation of the symbols of the Degree to which it belongs. The Trestle-Board is to be found only in the Entered Apprentice’s Degree. There is a Tracing-Board in every Degree, from the first to the highest. And, lastly, the Trestle-Board is a symbol; the Tracing-Board is a piece of furniture or picture containing the representation of many symbols.

– Source: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry

Year Volume Issue Worshipful Master Trustleboard PDF File
2021 8 2 Rodney Flannery trestleboard-2021-vol8-iss2
2020 7 2 Michael D. Heath trestleboard-2020-vol7-iss2
2020 6 1 Frank M. Swiatek trestleboard-2020-vol6-iss1
2018 5 1 Charles Weikel trestleboard-2018-vol5-iss1
2017 4 3 Craig Lobdell trestleboard-2017-vol4-iss3
2017 4 2 Craig Lobdell trestleboard-2017-vol4-iss2
2016 4 1 Craig Lobdell threstleboard-2016-vol4-iss1

ABOUT LODGE 631

In the spring of 1913, Acacia Fraternity sponsored a banquet to which all Masons on the Ohio State University campus were invited. As a result of the interest manifested at this meeting, a permanent organization seemed desirable and a committee was formed to be in charge of future activities. Several intervening meetings were held, and early in 1914 the organization became known as the Ohio State University Masonic Club, and the Acacia Fraternity as such was no longer active in the affairs of the club.

MASONIC LINKS

• The Grand Lodge of Ohio
• The Ohio Masonic Home
• The Ohio Beacon
• 14th Masonic District

2436 West Dublin Granville Road
Columbus, Ohio 43235

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