was trying to narrow down the date,reading the cut paste below im going with,1888-1900
maybe a search of porland history will provide more info on that lodge,interesting reading
cool find,guessing the medal, is as rare as the info on the lodge
City of Roses
The official,[1] and also most common, nickname for Portland is The City of Roses[1][2][3] or Rose City.[4][5] The first known reference to Portland as "The City of Roses" was made by visitors to an 1888 Episcopal Church convention. The nickname grew in popularity after the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition where Mayor Harry Lane suggested that the city needed a "festival of roses."[2] The first Portland Rose Festival was held two years later and remains the city's major annual festival a century later. There are many other cities and towns known as Rose City or The City of Roses.
Nicknames of Portland, Oregon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the United States, a series of working-class and rural Native-Protestant associations have represented the 'old-stock' white Protestant population in defense against Catholic immigrants from Ireland and elsewhere. These included the Order of United Americans, who were also influential in the Know-Nothing movement which, by 1854, had united its disparate local movements into a national party organization which would likely have taken the presidency but for the Civil War.12 In the 1890s, the American Protective Association, with over a million members, filled this role. In the 1910s and 1920s, the second Ku Klux Klan stepped into the breach and its membership swelled to six million, mainly in northern states like Indiana and Oregon where religion, not race, was the key issue. But these movements lacked the institutional permanence and symbolic durability of the Orange Order, and thus failed to survive serious crises. Perhaps the closest American cousin to the Orange Order was not the puny American Orange Order, but the Evangelical Alliance for the United States, which sought to unite the fragmented denominations of American Protestantism against the Catholic 'menace' beginning in 1847. However, its ecumenical energies were absorbed into the Federal Council of Churches whose ecumenism eventually escaped from its sectarian box during 1905-10. This revolution saw the Protestant crusade pitched overboard in favour of toleration and overtures to Catholicism, which reinforces the contention that American Protestant associations lacked the durability of symbols and outlook which characterizes Orangeism.[13]
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Loyal Orange Lodge (LOL)
Part of the structure of the Orange Order. The Orange Order is made up of 1,400 Private Lodges, 126 District Lodges, 12 County Lodges, and one Grand Lodge.
CAIN: Abstracts of Organisations - 'L'
if you want to know more about the society
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Edinburgh L.O.L.234 Links
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