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Book Title: The History Of Roane County Tennessee 1801-1870

ASBURY CAMP GROUNDS



     Located at Privett Springs, three miles south of Post Oak Springs and two

and one-half miles east of the present Rockwood, this old time, ante-bellum

popular religious camp meeting ground of the Methodists was named for a pioneer

Bishop of the Church, Bishop Asbury.



     This camp consisted of an assembly place under roof with seats without

backs, and the floor covered with straw, that was renewed daily. There was a

pulpit stand and a preachers' room on one side, and boxes in which were

installed tallow dip candles for night services. Meetings and preachings and

exhorations continued throughout the day and into the night. Great sermons were

delivered.



     The great preachers of the denomination from throughout the Holston

Conference and beyond its limits, as all local preachers were in attendance and

very active and enthusiastic, as were all the leading singers of the whole

section and for great distances beyond.



     The assembly shed was surrounded by the Camps of all the leading families

of the churches of the whole district. Many brought their colored slave cooks

and waiters and an immense supply of good things to eat of every character,

which the region supplied in profusion. These negro slave servants attended the

services, occupying the assigned section of the assembly shed. Many of them were

members in good standing of the Methodist Church, as was usual during slavery
times.



     Some of the leading families camping here were the Browns, Pyotts, Tedders

McElwees, Elbens, Wintons, Montgomerys, Whites, Haleys, Lincolns, Kimbroughs,

Thomasons, Martins, Centers and many others.



     Asbury Camp Ground and its great meetings came to an end when the black

cloud of war burst upon the country. The great meeting became a memory only, and

the buildings and appurtenances went to decay.



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Part Three



The History of Roane County Tennessee 1801-1870

by

Emma Middleton Wells



Printed by

The Lookout Publishing Company

Chattanooga, Tennessee



(1927)

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