The lodge is named for the Indian River, which runs the entire length of Brevard County. It is the only Florida lodge to be assigned the number 90 and is still active and meets in Titusville.

Indian River’s first charter members were:

• Samuel H. Ray
• Andrew Frosher
• Charles R. Carlin
• M.O. Burnham
• William R. Sanders
• William S. Norwood
• William B. Smith
• Freasley J. Mendel

Our first worshipful master was Brother Alexander A. Stewart. Worshipful Brother Stewart was born December 20, 1840 near Jasper, Florida. Brother Stewart was a Lieutenant in the Confederate Army and moved to Brevard County after the Civil War. In 1871 he was appointed Clerk of the Court in Brevard County and served until 1912. Brother Stewart died March 9, 1922 and is buried at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens in Titusville.

The lodge first met in the old two story framed courthouse built in 1881 on Palm Ave. which was just north of the Sheriffs residents and jail. When the Indian River Hotel was built around 1886 and later to be known as the Dixie Hotel, the lodge moved in and met there for some time while the Masonic Hall was being built on the northwest corner of Julia St. and Hopkins Ave., across the street on the north side of the Magnolia Theater, which is now the Emma Parish Theater. The Masonic Hall was completed and Dedicated by the Grand Master of Florida, M..W.. Thomas G. Hutchinson in 1905. The Masonic Hall burned down in 1915 and the lodge moved to the second story of the old Scobie Building, in later years known as Ford Hardware, located on US-1 in downtown Titusville. The lodge met there for a number of years before moving above the Davis Drug Store located at Julia St. and US-1. The lodge then moved to the third floor of the Bayview Elementary School, which was located where the Titusville City Hall is today, and remained there until the present lodge building located at the corner of US-1 and Garden St., was built in 1953. Indian River Lodge meets at this present site today.

Indian River Lodge No. 90 was very active in our community from it’s very beginning, as it is today with over 485 members.

With over 100 years of Masonic History, we are proud to have been honored with 13 District Deputy Grand Masters:

• George Scobie.......1922
• W.B. Kimble...........1941-43
• L.C. Stewart.........1947
• James L. Carlile......1954
• Ronald V. Bakas.....1961
• Robert W. Moyer....1970
• Gerald H. Powell.....1973
• Gary B. Cull...........1980
• James A. Johns......1988
• Thomas T. Corbin...1993
• D. Lamar Surrency..1995
• William P. Macken...2001
• Roger K. Paul.........2003
• Gregory L. Davis.....2007