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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" certainty="approximate" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1857/1990" type="bulk">1857-1990</unitdate>
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      <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>
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<p>This collection consists of the archives of Lexington, Virginia's freemasonry organization, the Mountain City Lodge, No. 67 founded in 1857. The archive inludes early petitions for membership from the fraternal organization's founding era, management and financial records, membership records, a nearly complete run of the annually published bound volumes titled, "Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Virginia" between the late 1850s thhrough the early 1900s.</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>This collection is unprocessed.</p>  </processinfo>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Access</head>
<p>The collection is open for research use.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Use</head>
<p>The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.</p>  </userestrict>
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<p>[Identification of item], Mountain City Lodge No. 67 archives, RHS Coll. #0507, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA</p>
<p>In some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact Special Collections' staff to verify the appropriate format.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <subject source="fast">Freemasonry -- Lodges -- Management</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Freemasonry -- Manuscripts</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Freemasonry -- Periodicals</subject>
    <corpname rules="aacr" source="local">Freemasons. Mountain City Lodge </corpname>
    <corpname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Virginia</corpname>
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