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Located right along Colorado's amazing front range, the town of Longmont sits in the shadow of the 14,259 ft Longs Peak. Our chapter of Oddfellows was established in this beautiful setting over one hundred years ago. Our lodge in the historic downtown area of Longmont is also about a century old. We are always accepting new members, so please feel free to contact us with questions regarding membership applications. We hope to hear from you soon! In the meantime please browse our website to get a feel for our chapter.

Origins and Nature of the Institution

The Order of Odd Fellows is a benevolent and social society, sometimes classified as a friendly benefit society having initiatory rites and ceremonies, gradation or degrees in membership, and mystic signs of recognition and communication.

Any friendly and benevolent society is a mutual association of individuals which has as its chief purpose the welfare of its members. One of its primary aims is to provide its members with aid when suffering for the needs of life because of illness, unemployment, or other misfortunes. The relief or sustenance of members, of their families and close relatives, of their widows and orphans in case of death, have been the chief purpose of the organization of Odd Fellowship since its beginning. These aims and purposes have been consistently and faithfully maintained throughout the history of the Order.

By 1796 Odd Fellow organizations were numerous in England, and each was independent from the others. Fraternal groups such as the Odd Fellows were suppressed in England for a time, but by 1803 the Odd Fellows were revived by an organization called "London Union Odd Fellows," which later became known as the "Grand Lodge of England" and assumed authority over all Odd Fellow lodges in that country.

Victory Lodge in Manchester declared itself independent of the Grand Lodge of England in 1809. In 1814, the six Odd Fellows lodges in the Manchester area met and formed The Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which elected officers and proceeded to standardize degree work of the lodges.