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Aug. 4, 1753 – George Washington, a 21-year-old Virginia
farmer, was declared a Master Mason in a Masonic ritual performed by his fellow
Freemasons during a secret ceremony at Masonic Lodge No. 4 in Fredericksburg, Va.
Washington had been initiated into the Masons at age 20 on November 4, 1752.
The following year, on March 3, 1753, he was passed as a "Fellow Craft,"
and five months later, Washington was raised to the rank of Master Mason. In
1788, shortly before becoming the first president of the United States,
Washington was elected the first Worshipful Master of Alexandria Lodge No. 22.
Aug. 4, 1862 – During the Civil War, a skirmish occurred at
Woodville, Ala.
Aug. 4, 1864 – Union Admiral David Farragut ordered the
“Chickasaw,” under Lt. Commander George H. Perkins to shell Fort Powell, a
Confederate fort on a sandbar just north of Heron Island, two miles north of
Dauphin Island, near the mouth of Mobile Bay.
Aug. 4, 1903 – L.T. Rutland entered the hardware business in
Evergreen when he joined the Dunn Hardware Co. as a clerk. A few years later,
he purchased an interest in the store and in 1917 he bought the store and
changed its name to Rutland Hare Co.
Aug. 4, 1953 – L.T. Rutland of Evergreen observed the 50th anniversary of
his entry into the hardware business by entertaining the owners and employees
of Canterbury Hardware, Inc. with a party at his home.
Aug. 4, 1953 – The Repton Gin ginned a bale of cotton for
Leon Jordan of Excel that weighed 611 pounds and sold for 45 cents a pound. The
Evergreen Gin ginned a bale for Fairview farmer Brown Hawkins that weighed 385
pounds.
Aug. 4, 1998 – Monroeville minister Thomas James Williams
Jr., 33, died at USA Medical Center in Mobile after a collision with a train at
King’s Crossing in Evergreen on Aug. 2, 1998.
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