Sunday, November 24, 1963 - Post Tribune: PORTER LODGE 137, F & AM, moved to new quarters in Valparaiso on Saturday, Nov. 16, thus opening still another chapter in a fraternal history which predates the American Civil War.
It was in May of 1842-nineteen years before the Civil War when six Masons gathered at the rural Valparaiso home of Adam S. Campbell lor Porter County's first recorded Masonic Order meeting.