Anderson Campground

The camp ground handled church business as well as revivals. Methodist minutes record an annual conference here on August 14, 1880, and quarterly conferences on February 19 and August 20, 1881, and February 23, 1882. At the August 1881 session the trustees were authorized to give one acre of the grounds to the neighborhood school. The National Register of Historic Places listed the site on December 27, 1982. Wikipedia's article describes a tent-like wooden arbor of 1874 and a Gothic Revival church of 1894, and says the last Methodist camp meetings were held in the 1930s.

What the plaque says

Anderson Campground Located on a spring near Brushy Creek community, this area was first settled in the 1850s. In 1873 it was set aside for use as a religious campground by members of the local Methodist congregation. The land was purchased from E. S. Jamison of Galveston County for sixty dollars in gold. The tabernacle was built the following year of pine beams, sweet gum piers, and wooden pegs. (1981)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas State Railroad Excursion Train — 15 mi
  A round trip of about 25 miles of track between the Palestine and Rusk depots through the Piney Woods, on a line built by prison labor and reopened as a tourist railroad in 1976.
• Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center — 20 mi
  A Texas Parks and Wildlife hatchery and visitor center in Athens where visitors can borrow tackle and fish a stocked pond, watch native species in gallery tanks and ride a tram around the hatchery.

More markers nearby

• Concord Baptist Church and Cemetery — 4.8 mi
• First Gravesite of Cynthia Ann Parker — 5.7 mi
• Mound Prairie Cemetery — 6.5 mi
• Old Montalba — 7.2 mi