This building, fronting on Route 50 in the center of North Vernon, was once a lodge of the Improved Order of Red Men, a fraternal order with chapters in many American states.
How many chapters? Where located? How governed? Etc?
All this is covered in excruciating detail in the 623 pages of the Official History of the Improved Order of Red Men, Lindsay, Conley, and Litchman, Fraternity Publishing Company, 1893.
It’s free to read online. If you’re interested, search for it.
Nothing more need be said here.
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