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October 3, 1961 – Tuesday

At the Pine Needle Clubhouse a list of 69 Master Masons in the Mountain Park area was compiled to see how many of them would be interested in forming a new Lodge. Approximately 27 brethren on that list contributed one hundred dollars each to start a new Lodge. All 27 plus 14 others become charter members of the Masonic Lodge known as Mountain Park Lodge No. 729.

October 17, 1961 – Tuesday

At the second meeting at the Pine Needle Clubhouse on Rockbridge Road, Stone Mountain, Gwinnett County, Georgia 15 Brother Master Masons met to propose a new Masonic Lodge. The Brethren present were:
  • G. Robert Parker
  • H. Higgins
  • Roy O. Smith
  • Seaborn Cochran
  • Herbert A. Thigpen
  • William K. Hall
  • F. Ray Street
  • L.J. Canup
  • Clarence Patt
  • M.D. Shaw
  • Wade Gunter
  • E.C. Lancaster
  • John Shelton
  • Herbert Spence
  • Jack Street

October 25, 1961

The Grand Lodge of Georgia, Free and Accepted Masons, granted a Charter to 41 Brothers for the purpose of a Masonic Lodge to be known as Mountain Park Masonic Lodge No. 729. Twenty-One of the charter members came from Stone Mountain Lodge No. 449 and are as follows:

  • Charlie Clifford Bennett
  • Joh Otis Britt Jr.
  • James Boyd Camp
  • Webster L. J. Canup
  • Henry Clinton Carswell
  • Olif Campbell Freeman
  • James Preston Johnson
  • Emory Clifton Lancaster
  • Joseph Martin, Jr.
  • Henry Holmes Moon
  • Hollis Berry Nash
  • John Brownlee Parker
  • General Robert Parker
  • James Carlus Pounds
  • Clarence Pratt
  • William Paul Sharp
  • John Henry Shelton, Jr.
  • Robert Lee Smith
  • Bruce William Stowe
  • Francis Raymond Street
  • Jack Street

Six of the charter members came from Snellville Lodge No. 99 and are as follows:

  • William Kilpatrick Hall
  • William Henry Moore
  • Roy O’Neal Smith
  • Herbert Washington Spence
  • Mack Brooks Stephens
  • Nick Russell Stephens

Four charter members came from Sweetwater Lodge No. 421 and are as follows

  • Henry John Aderhold
  • Victor Lamont Doss
  • Allen Fuller Garner
  • Ray Ernest Johnson

November 30, 1961

Mountain Park Lodge was dedicated at Corinth Baptist Church at 7:15. Most Worshipful Grand Master of Masons in Georgia, Clarence H. Cohen presented the Charter to W.B. Nick R. Stephens, the first Master of Mountain Park Lodge. Then he installed the remaining officers as follows:
  • S.W.: William K. Hall
  • J.W.: G. Robert Parker
  • Treas.: Hollis B. Nash
  • Sec.: Herbert A. Thigpen
  • S.D.: William H. Moore
  • J.D.: John C. Brooks
  • S.S.: Roy Smith
  • J.S.: Jack Street
  • Tyler: Bruce W. Stowe
From these beginning, Mountain Park has grown to where it is today, an active lodge with over 200 members.

Mountain Park Lodge Past Master’s

  • 2023 – WB Drew Weaver
  • 2022 – WB Paul Burns
  • 2021 – WB Morgan Williams
  • 2020 – WB Greg Brown
  • 2019 – WB Tom Mulheron
  • 2018 – WB Steve Kimbro
  • 2017 – WB Paul Rope
  • 2016 – WB Jim Stovall
  • 2015 – WB Jim Schultz
  • 2014 – WB James Thomas
  • 2013 – WB Jim Foster
  • 2012 – WB P R Williamson
  • 2011 – WB Dennis M. Stotts
  • 2010 – WB David Ramsey
  • 2009 – WB Tim Almand
  • 2008 – WB John Heckert
  • 2007 – WB Tommy Morris
  • 2006 – WB Calvin Walls
  • 2005 – WB Benny Baker
  • 2004 – WB Merrill Grennor
  • 2003 – WB Chris Hulen
  • 2002 – WB Danny Ford
  • 2001 – WB Steve Young
  • 2000 – WB John McPipkin
  • 1999 – WB Danny Boyles
  • 1998 – WB William O’Neal Lovins
  • 1997 – WB Larry Bishop
  • 1996 – WB George Marius Babaz II
  • 1995 – WB Frederick Paul Meyer Jr.
  • 1994 – WB Jeffery Garland Babb Sr.
  • 1993 – WB William Cumbie Foster
  • 1992 – WB Ronald E Dowell
  • 1991 – WB Marvin F Lockaby
  • 1990 – WB Gary A Bell
  • 1989 – WB Wiley A Gammon Jr.
  • 1988 – WB Gilbert H Bills
  • 1987 – WB Richard Woodard Sheperd
  • 1986 – WB Jerry D Moss
  • 1985 – WB Jimmy B Simpson II
  • 1984 – WB Don E Hogan
  • 1983 – WB Claude J Smith
  • 1982 – WB Richard O Garmon
  • 1981 – WB Richard K Scroggs
  • 1980 – WB James R Reese
  • 1979 – WB Donald L Reese
  • 1978 – WB William H Lewis
  • 1977 – WB Thomas E Blackmon Sr.
  • 1976 – WB Willford E Slade
  • 1975 – WB Michael E Wicks
  • 1974 – WB Orville T Jones Jr.
  • 1973 – WB Harvey L Robinson
  • 1972 – WB Kenneth S Taliaferro
  • 1971 – WB J D Johnson
  • 1970 – WB Harold W Roberts
  • 1969 – WB Bruce W Stowe
  • 1968 – WB Jack Street
  • 1967 – WB Roy O Smith
  • 1966 – WB John C Brooks
  • 1965 – WB William H Moore
  • 1964 – WB General R Parker
  • 1963 – WB Willian K Hall
  •  1961-1962 – WB Nick R. Stephens