Noonday Holiness Camp Interdenominational

The camp is still run by a board, and the Stephen F. Austin State University Heritage Center describes what stands there. Its canopy is a hipped tin roof on wooden posts, over wooden benches set on a sawdust floor and facing a simple wooden platform. Behind it are twelve camp houses and a large dining hall. The center calls Noonday the longest ongoing outdoor church camp in Harrison County and says it rests on Wesleyan doctrine, though the camp is interdenominational.

What the plaque says

Noonday Holiness Camp Interdenominational Founded in 1897 by J. M. Black, T. P. Black, F. E. Dickard, J. B. LaGrone, J. J. Koon and G. B. Richardson, early civic leaders who were businessmen and landowners. The first two annual camp meetings were held under brush arbors on site given by Mrs. Alfred Beaty and Messrs. Will Schaffer, Will Brazzil and G. W. Croft. Tabernacle was built here in 1900. A plantation bell announced services. In early days, guests came by special trains. Camp is controlled by a board of managers who maintain the facilities and conduct business. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Starr Family Home State Historic Site — 13 mi
  Maplecroft, the 1871 Greek Revival house Frank Starr built in Marshall, with Ruth Starr Blake's glass and china, an 1880s kitchen restored in 2019 and a retirement home built for a formerly enslaved person.
• Texas and Pacific Railway Depot and Museum — 13 mi
  The only surviving building of the Texas and Pacific shops at Marshall, a 1912 Mission Revival depot saved from demolition in the 1990s, still an Amtrak stop, with a railway museum and a Mikado locomotive.
• Harrison County Historical Museum — 13 mi
  Galleries in Marshall's 1901 courthouse that run from the Caddo to the present, with Wiley College, Lady Bird Johnson's inaugural gown and a military gallery across the square in Memorial City Hall.
• Jefferson Historical Museum — 20 mi
  A four-floor museum in Jefferson's 1888-90 federal post office and courthouse, with rooms for African-American history, Jewish heritage, the Caddo and Diamond Bessie, bought by the historical society in 1965 for $8,100.

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