Tucker's Grove Camp Meeting Ground

Tucker's Grove Camp Meeting Ground
Location N of Iron Station off SR 1360, near Iron Station, North Carolina
Coordinates 35°28′3″N 81°5′0″W / 35.46750°N 81.08333°W / 35.46750; -81.08333Coordinates: 35°28′3″N 81°5′0″W / 35.46750°N 81.08333°W / 35.46750; -81.08333
Area 5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built 1800 (1800)
Architectural style regional vernacular
NRHP Reference # 72000972[1]
Added to NRHP October 18, 1972

Tucker's Grove Camp Meeting Ground is a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church camp meeting ground located near Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. The arbor is a square open structure with a deep pyramidal roof and supported by an open truss system. It has a raised platform with a pulpit and in front of the platform a long wooden bench known as the mourner's bench, "seeker's bench" or "anxious seat." The arbor is surrounded by frame structures called "tents" which form an almost continuous enclosure, roughly square in form. The camp meeting has been operating continuously since 1876.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Survey and Planning Unit Staff (February 1972). "Tucker's Grove Camp Meeting Ground" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.


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