Mount Tabor Good Samaritan Lodge No. 59

Mt. Tabor Good Samaritan Lodge #59
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Mt. Tabor Good Samaritan Lodge, July 2009
Nearest city	Crownsville, Maryland
Coordinates	39°0′34″N 76°37′49″W / 39.00944°N 76.63028°WCoordinates: 39°0′34″N 76°37′49″W / 39.00944°N 76.63028°W
Built	1899
Architect	Hawkins, Lawrence, Sr.
NRHP Reference #	01000724 [1]
Added to NRHP	July 20, 2001

Mt. Tabor Good Samaritan Lodge #59 is a historic building at Crownsville, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It was constructed in 1899, and is a small, two-story wood frame building, with a gable roof. A small one-story gable roof addition was made in 2000. Founded as the United Sons and Daughters of Levi Beneficial Society, No. 1 of Mount Tabor, it later joined the Independent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria, an African-American beneficial and temperance society for both men and women,^[2] as Mount Tabor Lodge No. 59. It is associated with the African American beneficial or benevolent society movement, and is one of six surviving African American benevolent society buildings in the state. The structure is located behind the Mt. Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church.^[3][4]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1]

References

1. National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Google Books: What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality, Princeton University Press, by Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos, Marshall Ganz, p. 46.
3. Donna Ware (January 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Tabor Good Samaritan Lodge No. 59" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
4. Anne Arundel County: Crownsville Small Area Plan: Community History, 2000, p. 14

External links

• Mt. Tabor Good Samaritan Lodge #59, Anne Arundel County, including photo from 2001, at Maryland Historical Trust