Rock Springs Camp meeting in Lincoln County has been going on for a long term of years everybody here about knew, but the North Carolina Christian Advocate goes back and in keeping history straight gives Lincoln County the record in the world for camp meeting, when the Advocate says:
“Rock Springs is the oldest camp ground in the world. At Rehobeth in Lincoln County Daniel Asbury, William McKendree (afterward bishop), Nicholas Watters, William Fulford, and James Hall, a leader in that day among the Presbyterians of Iredell County, held a camp meeting in 1794. The following year, 1795, another camp meeting was held at Bethel, about a mile from Rock Springs, and these were direct forerunners of the present camp ground.
From the front page of the Cleveland Star, Shelby, N.C., Friday, July 27, 1923
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