Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
“The Masonic Temple is a historic clubhouse in Lagro, Indiana completed in 1913. The National Register of Historic Places listed the masonic temple in 2020.”
Wikipedia article Masonic Temple (Lagro, Indiana), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Wabash County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
This property stands in Lagro Township. History of Wabash County Indiana, published 1914 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the wabash river, the salamonie and its mills, creeks in the township, natural features, first land entries, lewis rogers, first real settler.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Lagro Township - 412 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lagro, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2012: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lagro | - | A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lagro | - | Law enforcement officials reported numerous trees down in the town of Lagro. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Lagro | - | Emergency management officials reported nickel-size hail one-half mile north of US 24, north of Lagro. The hail caused some damage to corn in the area. Damage is estimated at $10,000. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Lagro | - | no account filed |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| I.O.R.M. Hall, Tonkawa No. 326 | under 500 feet | 2020 | |
 | St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church | 0.1 miles | 1999 |
 | Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery | 2.8 miles | 2015 |
 | Hominy Ridge Shelter House | 3.0 miles | 1994 |
| 13-24 Drive-In Movie Theater | 3.4 miles | 2021 | |
 | East Wabash Historic District | 5.3 miles | 2011 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005869 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Wabash County | All 33 listed properties in this county. |
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