Acacia Lodge No. 85

Acacia Lodge No. 85 (chartered 1857) is a Masonic lodge in the town of Greenwich, Connecticut. It was chartered by the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the State of Connecticut in 1857.
The Acacia Lodge met in the Isaac Mead Building, at 2-8 Greenwich Avenue, in Greenwich, during much of the last half of the 19th century.
Background
Speculative Masonry began in Greenwich in 1763 when Union Lodge No. 5 was organized in Stamford; its jurisdiction included Stamford, Greenwich, Darien, part of what is today New Canaan, Rye and Bedford, New York. The charter was signed by George Harrison, the Most Worshipful Provincial Grand Master of the Colony of New York. In 1780 the Lodge meeting place was moved from Stamford to Knapp’s Tavern in Horseneck (Greenwich) on account of the majority of active members at that time being men from Horseneck.<ref name=Hubbard/>

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