The 1912 Hill’s Wilson, N.C., city directory lists the Grand Union hall at Hines Street near Spring.
Here it is — “Lodge Hall (Negro)” — on page 20 of the 1913 Sanborn fire insurance maps of Wilson.
What was the Grand Union fraternal organization? It was not listed in the 1916 city directory, and I’ve found no other reference to the organization or its building.
Wilson Daily Times, 29 October 1997.
For more about the Odd Fellows Hannibal Lodge building, see here and here. Shortly after it erected this building, Lodge #1552 established the Odd Fellows cemetery that now lies abandoned and overgrown on Lane Street.
In 1954, Marshall Lodge 297 of the International Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks dedicated a new brick lodge hall at the corner of Nash and Vick Streets. Prior to this, the Elks met at 541 East Nash.
1001-1005 East Nash Street.
Clarence Best engraved the cornerstone.
The lodge is defunct, and the building, long abandoned, is scheduled for demolition.
Hill’s Wilson, N.C. City Directory (1930).