Was the Masonic marker on a high hill, still up there? It turns out that at the top of Birdseye, these stones did not have an easy time of it. The monument was hit by lightning twice, first in 1898. It was pulled apart by time, weather conditions and vandals. For this reason, in 1917, the Lee Lodge Masons carried their stones back to Castleton to be incorporated, safe from adversarial weather conditions, into the new Lee Lodge they were building on Main Street. Looking more closely into the north east corner of the lodge dining room a massive and elaborate double chimney fireplace claims attention. The fireplace's white marble stones are dark and dim, inscribed in many cases with arcane symbols. Four commandery pieces mark the fireplace chimneybreast under a substantial Knights Templar commemorative. More stones are heaped in the storage bunkers, which line the room.
Excerpt from Rutland Herald: Masonic Mission, Lee Lodge houses stones from 19th-century monument by Pamela Hayes Rehlen, Oct. 6, 2005 Updated Oct. 27, 2018