Community Organizations

The first Masonic meeting in the area is said to have taken place near the current Village of Millport in 1779 when General John Sullivan and his troops were marching through. Old Oak Lodge, No. 253 Free and Accepted Masons was chartered on June 7, 1852. The lodge was named after the oak tree under which the 1779 meeting had taken place. The Odd Fellows, the Independent Order of Good Templars, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and the Grange also had chapters in Millport. In 1883, local veterans of the Civil War formed the Wilson Dean Post 416 of the Grand Army of the Republic.