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PORT ISABEL — A Masonic lodge in Port Isabel may be among the newest in Texas, but its number 33 dates to 1847.

The original application for a charter was filed when the town was still unincorporated and called Point Isabel. However, that application was never acted upon until recently.

In November 2006, a group of Masons from various lodges began to meet in the Laguna Madre area on a regular basis for coffee and fellowship, member Mike Gower said. Gower, a past Grand Master, recently moved to South Padre Island from McAllen.

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