Lake Victor Lodge No. 1011, A. F. & A. M.

Lake Victor began as a railroad camp in 1901 or 1902, while the Burnet-Lampasas line of the Houston and Texas Central was being laid. It took its name from an intermittent lake left where dirt was dug out for the railbed, which in turn was named for the crew's foreman, Victor Kellogg. The townsite was surveyed in 1903, with a school and a post office. For about twenty-five years it prospered as a shipping point. Then the school went to Burnet in 1947, the railroad abandoned the line in 1951 and the post office closed in 1957.

What the plaque says

Lake Victor Lodge No. 1011, A. F. & A. M. Sponsored by the nearby Robert E. Lee Lodge, Lake Victor Lodge No. 1011, A. F. & A. M. was formally established in December 1909 during the 73rd Annual Grand Communications of the Grand Lodge of Texas. The first meeting of the Lake Victor Lodge took place in a rented building on January 1, 1910. The lodge built its own meeting place on this site in 1914 and continued to meet on that site throughout the 20th century. The largest membership of the Lake Victor Lodge in the 20th century was reported in 1953-1954. In 1999 the lodge had 36 members, three of whom had more than 50 years service. As is Masonic custom, the Lake Victor Lodge contributes to charitable causes. The lodge continues to uphold the traditions of its founders. (2000) Incise on back: The first officers in the 1914 building were: W. W. Barrett, W. M.; E. C. Glimp, S.W.; A. J. Hahn, J.W.; T. H. Hahn, Treas.; C. P. Warner, Sec.; M. H. Walden, S.D.; A. A. Hahn, J.D.; W. A. Farris, Tiler; W. J. Adams, S.S.; H. G. Risinger, J.S.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hancock Springs Park — 10 mi
  Lampasas's city park on Sulphur Creek, with a spring-fed swimming pool that holds about 69 degrees all year, the walls of the old bathhouse and a golf course.
• Inks Lake State Park — 16 mi
  A state park on a constant-level lake of the Colorado, between Buchanan and Inks dams, with pink granite and gneiss at the water and CCC work along Park Road 4.
• Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery — 17 mi
  A free federal hatchery below Inks Dam on the Colorado, with thirty production ponds that draw birds and a look at how fish are raised from egg to harvest.
• Longhorn Cavern State Park — 18 mi
  A cave carved by an underground river in the Hill Country, cleared of mud by hand in the 1930s and reached down 52 stone steps on a guided tour.

More markers nearby

• Mr. & Mrs. Jacob Wolf — 3.1 mi
• Dobyville Cemetery — 3.1 mi
• Bethel Cemetery — 3.9 mi
• Site of Town of Strickling — 7.2 mi