Ashley Lodge number 68 1 a.f. and AM

Charter on December 12th 1889 this was the 7th Masonic Lodge organized in Fannin County the first official meeting occurred in January 1890 in a two story frame building which the lodge shared with the Baptist Church in 1912 the lodge purchased a separate building in downtown Bailey the second floor was reserved for lunch meetings while the first floor it was leased to a variety of retail businesses that structure burned in 1950 in the Ashley Lodge members met in the Grove Hill Lodge in Leonard until a new building was completed in 1952