Brandywine Summit Camp Meeting

Brandywine Summit Camp Meeting is a Methodist camp meeting in Concord Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, occupying about thirteen acres of wooded hillside. Its community grew from canvas tents pitched in July 1867 in an area known as Johnson's Woods, and by the early twentieth century the tents had been replaced by one-story gabled cottages, many still standing on their original tent platforms. The camp is organized around a central Circle with an 1884 tabernacle, with cottages lining avenues named for member churches. Religious services ran nearly all day during the camp season, and traditions such as the closing sacred concert and the Money Tree ceremony continue. The site is regarded as one of the best-preserved surviving camp meetings in Pennsylvania, and its layout and vernacular architecture illustrate the type of camp meeting that spread across the country after the Civil War.