Independent Grand Lodges
After the American Revolution and, again, after the incorporation of the Dominion of Canada, the various Provincial Grand Lodges in North America were closed, and the Lodges in each State or Province formed independent Grand Lodges. These in turn, chartered lodges in the territories in the West and North. As each new State or Province came into being, the lodges that had been chartered within its borders gathered together and formed new Grand Lodges.
- Grand Lodge of Virginia - Est. 1778
- Grand Lodge of New York - Est. 1782 (declared itself Independent Grand Lodge on June 6, 1787)
- Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania - Est. 1786 (Continuation of Prov. G.L. of Penn. See above.)
- Grand Lodge of Georgia - Est. December 16, 1786
- Grand Lodge of New Jersey - Est. December 18, 1786
- Grand Lodge of Maryland - Est. December 9, 1787
- Grand Lodge of North Carolina - Est. December 9, 1787
- Grand Lodge of South Carolina - Est. 1788
- Grand Lodge of Connecticut - Est. 1789
- Grand Lodge of Rhode Island - Est. 1791
- Grand Lodge of Massachusetts - Est. 1792 (continuation of PGL of New England (see above).
- Grand Lodge of Vermont - Est. 1794
- Grand Lodge of Kentucky - Est. 1800
- Grand Lodge of Delaware - Est. 1806
- Grand Lodge of Ohio - Est. 1808
- Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia - Est. 1811
- Grand Lodge of Louisiana - Est. 1812
- Grand Lodge of Tennessee - Est. 1813
- Grand Lodge of Indiana - Est. January 13, 1818
- Grand Lodge of Mississippi - Est. July 27, 1818
- Grand Lodge of Maine - Est. 1820
- Grand Lodge of Missouri - Est. April 21, 1821
- Grand Lodge of Alabama - Est. June 11, 1821
- Grand Lodge of Michigan - Est. 1826
- Grand Lodge of Florida - Est. 1830
- Grand Lodge of Texas - Est. 1838
- Grand Lodge of Illinois- Est. 1840 - previous Grand Lodge in existence: 1822-1827
- Grand Lodge of Wisconsin - Est. 1843
- Grand Lodge of Iowa - Est. 1844
- Grand Lodge of New South Wales - Est. 1845
- Grand Lodge of California - Est. 1850
- Grand Lodge of Oregon - Est. 1851
- Grand Lodge of Minnesota - Est. 1853
- Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario - Est. 1855
- Grand Lodge of Kansas - Est. 1856
- Grand Lodge of Nebraska - Est. 1857
- Grand Lodge of Washington State - Est. 1858
- Grand Lodge of Colorado - Est. 1861
- Grand Lodge of Nevada - Est. January 17, 1865
- Grand Lodge of West Virginia - Est. April 12, 1865
- Grand Lodge of Montana - Est. January 26, 1866
- Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia - Est. February 20, 1866
- Grand Lodge of Idaho - Est. Deeember, 17 1867
- Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon - Est. December 24, 1867
- Grand Lodge of New Brunswick - Est. 1868
- Grand Lodge of Quebec - Est. 1869
- Grand Lodge of Utah - Est. 1872
- Grand Lodge of the Indian Territory - Est. Oct. 6, 1874 (Reestabished in 1892 as Grand Lodge of Oklahoma)
- Grand Lodge of Wyoming - Est. December 15, 1874
- Grand Lodge of Manitoba - Est. May 12, 1875
- Grand Lodge of Prince Edward Island - Est. June 23, 1875
- Grand Lodge of New Mexico - Est. 1877
- Grand Lodge of Arizona - Est. 1882
- Grand Lodge of North Dakota - Est. 1889
- Grand Lodge of Oklahoma - Est. 1892 (Replaced the Grand Lodge of Indian Territory)
- Grand Lodge of Alberta - Est. 1905
- Grand Lodge of Saskatchewan - Est. August 9, 1906
- Grand Lodge of Alaska Est. 1981
- Grand Lodge of Hawaii Est. 1989
- Grand Lodge of Newfoundland and Labrador - Est. 1997
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