Shiloh Methodist Campground

Shiloh's camp meeting is a place built for one week of the year. The community was founded in 1828 and held its first camp meeting by 1832. Families keep wooden tents, cottage-like buildings with screened sleeping porches, around a tabernacle built in 1925, and the church dates from 1997. A sawdust floor, an annual coat of whitewash and pine-knot scaffolds belong to the yearly routine. A cemetery across the road dates to at least 1828.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Roosevelt State Park — 11 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps state park on 150-acre Shadow Lake beside Bienville National Forest, with rustic cabins the CCC built between 1935 and 1940.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 21 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Old Capitol Museum — 21 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Farish Street Historic District — 21 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.

More markers nearby

• Centenary College — 5.0 mi
• Ruben Lacy — 5.7 mi
• Choctaw Line — 8.9 mi
• Rankin County Courthouses — 9.3 mi