Pleasant Grove Camp Meeting Ground
The National Park Service has not published a boundary polygon for this district; the map shows the listed properties inside it and the district's reference point.
Why it's listed
Pleasant Grove Camp Meeting Ground is a rural religious gathering site near Waxhaw in Union County, North Carolina. Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church bought twenty-four acres in 1830, and the site grew from the earlier McWhirter Camp Ground, which lacked a good water supply. A five-acre open square is lined with small frame "tents" once occupied by families during the annual meeting. At its center stands an open-sided frame arbor, eighty by sixty feet, with mortise-and-tenon framing said to date from 1830 and a hip-style pent roof. A frame church dating from 1895 and a former schoolhouse used as a preacher's dwelling stand nearby, along with a graveyard. More than 200 tents were reportedly built before 1860, but the grounds were closed in 1902 and all but one tent were torn down. Renewed interest brought seventy-one rebuilt tents by 1935. The site is described as a rare, still-functioning survivor of the nineteenth-century Great Revival.
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| Styles | Vernacular architecture |
|---|---|
| Areas of significance | Architecture, Religion |
| Acreage | 9.9 |
| Boundary source | not published |
| Full listing page | Pleasant Grove Camp Meeting Ground (property record) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
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