- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Mount Zion Camp Ground historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Brooks County
Camp meetings--Georgia--Morven
Methodists--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Brooks County, Morven, 30.94158, -83.49933
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Ga. 76 1 mile north of Morven
Text of marker: "MOUNT ZION CAMP GROUND. The first Camp Meeting was held on this site in 1828 by a "few scattered Methodists" before any Methodist Church in the area was organized. William Hendry, William Blair and Hamilton W. Sharpe, as a committee, selected the site. Rev. Adam Wyrick was the first visiting preacher. In 1831 Sion and Enoch Hall deeded the land on which the Camp Ground stood to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Housed first in a brush-arbor, the weeklong meetings were held without interruption until 1881. Then the camp meetings ceased and the nearby church was built. Meetings were practically continuous each day from sunrise until after "candle-lighting." 014-3 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1956" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_mount-zion-camp-ground
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_mount-zion-camp-ground
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright held by David Seibert. Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
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