Lawrence Grange #533
Welcome to the Lawrence Grange! The grange is a non-profit, family-oriented, fraternal organization dedicated to the betterment of the American quality of life through community service, education, legislation and fellowship. The Grange is the oldest agricultural and rural advocacy organization of its kind in the United States, with the National Grange (Patrons of Husbandry) having been established in 1867. The Pennsylvania State Grange was chartered in 1873, and the Lawrence Grange #533 was established two years later, on July 15, 1875.
Although the Grange's roots were in agriculture and that remains a major focus at the state and national level, the decline in the number of farms locally has caused the Lawrence Grange to evolve into more of a community service organization, doing whatever we can to help our neighbors, while promoting such old-fashioned values as responsibility, respect, empathy and patriotism. Some of the activities conducted by the Lawrence Grange include: litter pickup on a two-mile stretch of the Clearfield-Glen Richey Highway (SR-2023), providing two post-high school scholarship awards per year, making the Grange Hall available to all local and State political candidates and incumbents for town hall-type meetings and events, sponsoring two auctions per month for the community, conducting an annual childrens' carnival and providing a meeting place for local small groups and family gatherings.
Although the Grange's roots were in agriculture and that remains a major focus at the state and national level, the decline in the number of farms locally has caused the Lawrence Grange to evolve into more of a community service organization, doing whatever we can to help our neighbors, while promoting such old-fashioned values as responsibility, respect, empathy and patriotism. Some of the activities conducted by the Lawrence Grange include: litter pickup on a two-mile stretch of the Clearfield-Glen Richey Highway (SR-2023), providing two post-high school scholarship awards per year, making the Grange Hall available to all local and State political candidates and incumbents for town hall-type meetings and events, sponsoring two auctions per month for the community, conducting an annual childrens' carnival and providing a meeting place for local small groups and family gatherings.
| Address: | 14267 Old Erie Pike Clearfield, PA 16830 |
| Phone: | (814) 765-0933 |
| E-Mail: | lawrence.grange@yahoo.com |
| Website: | http://www.lawrence-grange.com/ |