Where William McKinley Became a Freemason
Winchester, Virginia
In the waning days of the Civil War, after spending four years dodging bullets, an obscure Union soldier from Ohio named William McKinley spent three days in a building in Winchester, Virginia, being initiated by both Confederate and Union soldiers into the secret society of Freemasonry. He emerged a Master Mason, and three decades later he was President of the United States!
A plaque on the outside wall of the building documents the event for future conspiracy theorists.