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The camp meeting is a form of Protestant Christian religious service originating in England and Scotland as an evangelical event in association with the communion season. It was held for worship, prea
A service of worship during a camp meeting at the tabernacle of Methodist Campground in Stoneboro, Pennsylvania, owned by the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection
An engraving of a Methodist camp meeting in 1819 (US Library of Congress).
A watercolor painting of a camp meeting circa 1839 (New Bedford Whaling Museum).
The tabernacle of Pleasant Grove Camp Meeting Ground, owned by the Pleasant Grove Methodist Church in Union County, North Carolina.
Ocean Grove, New Jersey
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Ocean Grove is an unincorporated community and census-designated place that is part of Neptune Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. It had a population of 3,057 at the 2020 census,
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…in 1867. In the mid-Atlantic states, the Methodist Church led many of these camp meetings and established semi-permanent sites for summer seasons. Ocean Grove, New Jersey, founded in 1869, has been called the "Queen of the Victorian Methodist Camp Meetings." Similar areas include Cape May Point, New Jersey, with others…
Ocean Grove welcome sign
A statue of Ellwood H. Stokes and the Great Auditorium facing Ocean Pathway – once named one of the ten most beautiful streets in America
Ross' Pavilion in Ocean Grove, 1902
A Surfside Meeting in 1876 – Harper's Monthly