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Rock Spring Camp Ground
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Rock Springs Camp Meeting Ground, Carnegie Survey Photo, 1938
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Location	6831 Campground Rd. Denver, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°32′25″N 81°1′40″W / 35.54028°N 81.02778°W / 35.54028; -81.02778
Area	8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built	1832 (1832)
NRHP reference No.	72000970 (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.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Notes

1. Originally listed on the National Register as the "Rock Springs Camp Meeting Ground". The name as listed was changed at the same time as a boundary increase in 2017.

References

1. 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.
2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
3. 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

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

• Rock Springs Camp Meeting website
• Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South: Old Camp Meeting, Denver, Lincoln County, North Carolina

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