Rock Springs Camp Meeting Ground
Rock Spring Camp Ground[a] | |
![]() Rock Springs Camp Meeting Ground, Carnegie Survey Photo, 1938 | |
Location | 6831 Campground Rd. Denver, North Carolina |
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Coordinates | 35°32′25″N 81°1′40″W / 35.54028°N 81.02778°W |
Area | 8 acres (3.2 ha) |
Built | 1832 |
NRHP reference No. | 72000970[2] (original) 100000899 (increase) |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | September 22, 1972 |
Boundary increase | April 17, 2017 |
Rock Springs Camp Meeting Ground is a historic Methodist camp meeting ground located near Denver, Lincoln County, North Carolina. The arbor was built in 1832, and is a rectangular open structure with a deep hipped roof and ventilation cap at the apex. It has a raised platform with a pine pulpit and seating for 1,000. The property has 288 numbered wooden "tents" placed in two and a partial third concentric ring around the arbor. Tent No. 1 is believed to date to the early-1830s. Rock Springs Camp Meeting Ground is the earliest camp meeting organization in North Carolina.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[2]
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ National Park Service (April 28, 2017), Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 4/17/2017 through 4/21/2017, archived from the original on May 3, 2017, retrieved May 3, 2017.
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Survey and Planning Unit Staff (February 1972). "Rock Springs Camp Meeting Ground" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
Further reading
[edit]Agosta, Carolyn Steele, "Two Weeks Every Summer, Stories from Camp Meeting", short stories inspired by Rock Spring Camp Meeting, Denver, NC, and Lincoln County, NC. https://www.carolynsteeleagosta.com
External links
[edit]- Rock Springs Camp Meeting website
- Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South: Old Camp Meeting, Denver, Lincoln County, North Carolina
- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
- Religious buildings and structures completed in 1832
- Buildings and structures in Lincoln County, North Carolina
- National Register of Historic Places in Lincoln County, North Carolina
- Methodism in North Carolina
- Camp meeting grounds
- Campgrounds in North Carolina
- Central North Carolina Registered Historic Place stubs