2inch stamp seal need some help with this one ! Really cool find !

[Ifoundit69]

I have this 2 inch round stamp seal . I reversed the picture to post it so it can be read. I tried all my avenues of research and dead end on all of them . I would like to know about the orange lodge its origins and also a time period for this stamp .

It reads , ROSE CITY LOYAL ORANGE LODGE # 172 PORTLAND OREGON 1688-90 91? INSTITUTED FEB 8 1810
Makers stamp in the back says WHITE STAMP&SEAL CO. PORTLAND OREGON

Any help would be really appreciatted ..

 

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[Lafitte Deux]

Nice seal stamp! Here's some info for ya. Orange Order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Ifoundit69]

I did a search on Orange Lodge , which took me to the UK to the Royal Orange Lodge emailed them no reply yet , while there I started reading there history on there site and different lodge locations which brought me to a story about the Battle of Bull Run in which in Manassas during this date the Patrick Henry Loyal Orange Lodge was opened . Email them no reply as of yet .. I am really curious exactly how old this stamp is ....

 

[cw0909]

was trying to narrow down the date,reading the cut paste below im going with,1888-1900
maybe a search of porland history will provide more info on that lodge,interesting reading
cool find,guessing the medal, is as rare as the info on the lodge
City of Roses
The official,[1] and also most common, nickname for Portland is The City of Roses[1][2][3] or Rose City.[4][5] The first known reference to Portland as "The City of Roses" was made by visitors to an 1888 Episcopal Church convention. The nickname grew in popularity after the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition where Mayor Harry Lane suggested that the city needed a "festival of roses."[2] The first Portland Rose Festival was held two years later and remains the city's major annual festival a century later. There are many other cities and towns known as Rose City or The City of Roses.
Nicknames of Portland, Oregon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the United States, a series of working-class and rural Native-Protestant associations have represented the 'old-stock' white Protestant population in defense against Catholic immigrants from Ireland and elsewhere. These included the Order of United Americans, who were also influential in the Know-Nothing movement which, by 1854, had united its disparate local movements into a national party organization which would likely have taken the presidency but for the Civil War.12 In the 1890s, the American Protective Association, with over a million members, filled this role. In the 1910s and 1920s, the second Ku Klux Klan stepped into the breach and its membership swelled to six million, mainly in northern states like Indiana and Oregon where religion, not race, was the key issue. But these movements lacked the institutional permanence and symbolic durability of the Orange Order, and thus failed to survive serious crises. Perhaps the closest American cousin to the Orange Order was not the puny American Orange Order, but the Evangelical Alliance for the United States, which sought to unite the fragmented denominations of American Protestantism against the Catholic 'menace' beginning in 1847. However, its ecumenical energies were absorbed into the Federal Council of Churches whose ecumenism eventually escaped from its sectarian box during 1905-10. This revolution saw the Protestant crusade pitched overboard in favour of toleration and overtures to Catholicism, which reinforces the contention that American Protestant associations lacked the durability of symbols and outlook which characterizes Orangeism.[13]
http://www.sneps.net/OO/images/1-paper%20for%20Toronto%2006-graphs%20in.pdf
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Loyal Orange Lodge (LOL)
Part of the structure of the Orange Order. The Orange Order is made up of 1,400 Private Lodges, 126 District Lodges, 12 County Lodges, and one Grand Lodge.
CAIN: Abstracts of Organisations - 'L'
if you want to know more about the society
links leading to links
Edinburgh L.O.L.234 Links
Masonic History Archives | Masonic Dictionary | www.masonicdictionary.com

 

[DoubleUgly]

The Oregon Historical Society has this collection that shows an early date: "Guide to the Associations and Institutions Collection 1860-2010"

http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/ark:/80444/xv23092

"Collection created by the Oregon Historical Society containing materials relating to organizations, associations, institutions, and other groups, primarily in Oregon and Portland. Contains programs, fliers, newsletters, pamphlets, scrapbooks, original organizational records, and general ephemera."

And has a pamphlet from the Loyal Orange Institution of the USA, circa 1910.

Edit:
I think the listed date is 1910, as Portland wasn't founded until 1843. That would also coincide with the brochure I listed above. Perhaps the stamp and brochure are of the same event, maybe the founding of the lodge or recruiting new members?

Also, couldn't find White Stamp and Seal Company, but found a Portland Stamp and Seal Company that appears to still be in business.

Portland Stamp & Seal Co
625 Sw 10th Avenue
Portland, OR 97205-2725
Phone: (503) 228-9531

Hope this helps!