What's Up With the Masons

On April 7, 1865 the Rocky featured a short piece on page three. "A Magnificent Present." "Some weeks ago," it begins, "a few gentlemen who differ somewhat from the 'high officials' who have such affection for 'friendly Indians'" told Chivington to order for himself a gold chain, and he went right ahead and ordered up a $502 braided six-foot gold chain and "upon it are all the distinctive symbols of Masonry up to the Knight Templar's degree." $502 in 1865. This would have been during or just after Chivington gets torched at the Tappan commission's hearings. Decades later some factions would try to create various monuments in favor of Chiv and slaughtering peoples, but huge rapper jewelry, that's really something.

The Masonic lodge at Central (Central City) was also named after Chivington.