Mount Tabor Good Samaritan Lodge No. 59 Explained

Mt. Tabor Good Samaritan Lodge #59
Nearest City:Crownsville, Maryland
Coordinates:39.0094°N -76.6303°W
Built:1899
Architect:Hawkins, Lawrence, Sr.
Added:July 20, 2001
Refnum:01000724

Mt. Tabor Good Samaritan Lodge #59 is a historic building at Crownsville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It was constructed in 1899, and is a small, two-story wood-frame building, with a gable roof. A small one-story gable roof addition was made in 2000. Founded as the United Sons and Daughters of Levi Beneficial Society, No. 1 of Mount Tabor, it later joined the Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria, an African-American beneficial and temperance society for both men and women,[1] as Mount Tabor Lodge No. 59. It is associated with the African American beneficial or benevolent society movement, and is one of six surviving African American benevolent society buildings in the state. The structure is located behind the Mt. Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church.[2] [3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ku9aOC9OxnMC&dq=Independent+Order+of+Good+Samaritans+and+Daughters+of+Samaria.+temperance&pg=PA46 Google Books: What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Tabor Good Samaritan Lodge No. 59. January 2001. 2016-01-01 . Donna Ware . Maryland Historical Trust.
  3. https://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:Iur3UiDi0WwJ:www.aacounty.org/PlanZone/SAP/Resources/sap_crown_hist.pdf+Independent+Order+of+Good+Samaritans+and+Daughters+of+Samaria.&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShlFzuHaU_YHZivo4ePse8VyixOJJ2iQ7c9DOE2gMZFiAhyweBSW0DToSIPtXY4_4f8Cubaz7RFzIi-MrAiugtxJdJKPCcKXTwtyh-vLjJQFXQK2N4AdRVEbmRsrg85ekR1QB5v&sig=AFQjCNFdxuxM8n6lU4WjtF3oFJHPKbhzmg Anne Arundel County: Crownsville Small Area Plan: Community History, 2000, p. 14