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Under The Trees The Old Camp Meetings of Perry County

Under The Trees The Old Camp Meetings of Perry County

Camp meetings were part of the great wave of evangelical Christianity that swept across America during the early nineteenth century. Methodists, United Brethren, Evangelicals and other denominations discovered that an outdoor gathering could bring together farm families scattered across miles of countryside such as rural Perry County.

September 13, 2026 · Terry Diener · Additional Credits: Credits: History of Perry County, Pennsylvania, Harry Hain, 1922 (LOC); Sheaffer's Valley Church of God, History of the Church of God in Perry County; Society of Architectural Historian, Perry County; The Register, (Duncannon, Pennsylvania), July 18, 1884, Page 04;