Sulphur Springs Methodist Campground

Historic church in Tennessee, United States

United States historic place


Sulphur Springs Methodist Campground
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


36°20′53″N 82°32′29″W / 36.34806°N 82.54139°W / 36.34806; -82.54139
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1900 (1900)
NRHP reference No.	75001796^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 12, 1975

The Sulphur Springs Methodist Campground is a historic religious summer campground near Jonesborough, Tennessee.

This one-story open air camp meeting shed with gable on hipped roof is rectangular, measures approximately 72 x 45 feet, and has a nave plan. The structure is supported by hewn and pegged timber truss work. It features a stage, unfinished plank pews, and a packed earth and sawdust floor. Sulphur Springs Methodist Campground was founded following the Great Revival of 1800. First meetings here may have occurred as early as 1815. In 1842 temporary brush arbors were abandoned for a more permanent structural complex. The present shed as well as the other buildings, now extinct, were reconstructed according to the same plan and shape and utilizing the same materials in 1900.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Herndon, Joseph (September 9, 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Sulphur Springs Methodist Campground". National Park Service. Retrieved December 20, 2014. and three photos