Poplar Springs Methodist Camp Ground

Camp meetings have been held here each year from 1832,except four years during the War Between the states. The 50-acre plot, &quotextending one-half mile in every direction from the preacher´s stand&quot was purchased by from Daniel and Jacob Groover for $25 by William Hammons, John F. Wilson, George Shell, John B. Wade, Dennis Phillips, Thomas King and Rev. Nelson Osborne, Trustees. The first meeting, August 1832, was held under a brush arbor with 30 tents on the ground. Women were seated on one side of the arbor: men on the other John W. Osborne, appointed usher served at every meeting until his death in 1914.

GHM 059-5 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1957

Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.

Original page, with additional info, here.

Photo credit: David Seibert.