Order of Galilean Fishermen

[3] The order's first leader was Hemsley Nichols of John Wesley Methodist Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

[8][1] In 1885, the Fisherman's Hall was built in Charles Town, West Virginia, and is still in use today as a community center.

47 purchased a tract of land where the first Rosenwald School in Calvert County, Maryland, would be constructed in 1921.

[2] The order was a strong proponent of civil rights and in 1889, it raised funds to pay for the legal defense of the eighteen men convicted in the 1889 riot on Navassa Island.

[12] The emblems of the order include the fish, Passion cross, rose, and INRI of the eighteenth degree of the Scottish Rite.