Poplar Springs Methodist Camp Ground-GHM 059-5-Franklin Co
Posted by: Sprinterman
N 34° 20.190 W 083° 09.065
17S E 302121 N 3801563
On GA 327 about 2.5 miles south of Jackson Bridge Road
Waymark Code: WM7JHP
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 11/01/2009
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Camp meetings have been held here each year from 1832,except four years during the War Between the states. The 50-acre plot, "extending one-half mile in every direction from the preacher´s stand" 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.
Type of Marker: Highway
Marker #: 059-5
Date: 1957
Sponsor: Georgia Historic Commission
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