Soon after the arrival of the Granville Colony at this place, later known as the Village of Granville in the fall of 1805, Deacon Timothy Rose cut down a large black walnut tree. He spilt out three puncheons. He gave one to Elias Gillman, another to Timothy Spellman Sr. and retained the other for himself. These puncheons were for the purpose of making tables and the three entered upon a strife of who would have the first completed table. Elias Gillman claimed to have his finished first and ate breakfast off of it in the morning; Deacon Rose ate supper off of his the same day. The puncheons were hewed down with a broad axe then worked to a proper thickness with planes.

These men and others from the colony foresaw the need of a Masonic influence in their community to foster the development of a moral code and foster good works for the benefit of all. A petition was sent to the Grand Lodge of Connecticut praying for permission to organize and establish a Masonic Lodge in this territory. When a charter eventually arrived for the formation of "ORION LODGE", the brothers found that a Grand Lodge of Ohio had been formed by American Union Lodge, Amity Lodge, Cincinnati Lodge, Scioto Lodge and Erie Lodge.

In 1810, the Masons of Granville requested the Grand Lodge of Ohio to issue them a dispensation allowing the formation of a Lodge. Since the request was signed by only seven (7) men, instead of the required ten (10), it was sent back for additional signatures. Later in that year, Most Worshipful Brother Lewis Cass, Grand Master of Masons in Ohio, came to Granville and with the help of a number of Brothers from Amity Lodge in Zanesville, organized the brethren into a Lodge. At the organization, Brother Job Case was appointed Worshipful Master, Brother Timothy Spellman Sr., Senior Warden, and Brother Noble Landen, Junior Warden. The first meeting place was a fourteen and a half, by ten foot room in the residence of Elias Gillman which was finished off for that purpose. A charter was granted to Center Star Lodge No. 11, at the stated communication of the Grand Lodge of Ohio, on January 7, 1811.

Anti-Masonic feelings surfaced in Granville in the late 1820’s and spurred by the New York Morgan Affair and Eastern response to the Presidential Campaign of Andrew Jackson. Center Star was represented at the Grand communications and filed regular returns to June 30, 1837. The charter was surrendered in 1839. Subsequent history shows Center Star Lodge No. 11 was not dead, but only taking a brief sleep and upon waking, shone forth seemingly all the brighter for the scourge through which she had passed.

A new charter was issued in 1850 to Center Star Lodge bearing the number of the old Lodge. On October 29, 1850 Brother G. L. Salsbury was installed as Worshipful Master, Brother E. G. Granger was installed as Senior Warden and Brother Henry R. Green was installed as the Junior Warden.

From that time to the present, Center Star Lodge No. 11 has continued to prosper.