grange

Before Nashville beckoned, a 19-year-old Clark played in a family band with her mother called Sagebrush and Satin, gigging around local fairs, festivals and grange halls.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2021

It’s an old town built on what was originally grange, or field lands, held by Dublin churches.

From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017

The place was imposing only in comparison to the buildings that surrounded it; perhaps it was a grange hall once, or seat of government.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2017

Such textiles turn up in performance spaces, fraternal organizations, grange halls, government offices and schoolhouses.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2015

He had seen to its lowering, and a wain-load of wheat from the grange at the Wallfield was coming slowly into the courtyard.

From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay

Many States responded with resolutions from State political parties, press associations, churches, granges, labor and business organizations, political leaders and large numbers of citizens.

From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Harper, Ida Husted

In the granges abroad in the country there are other great pineapples, which grow on low trees, and are like the Aloe tree: they are of a very good smell and exceeding good taste.

From A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by A Gentleman of Elvas [pseud.]

Mention of visits to the granges or farms of the convents sometimes occurs.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

Likewise people associate in churches, granges, etc., but church parishes overlap, and the constituency of any one of these associations is not necessarily a community.

From The Farmer and His Community by Sanderson, Dwight

Both men and women are admitted to membership and in several states junior granges for the older children are numerous.

From The Farmer and His Community by Sanderson, Dwight