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Anderson Camp Ground
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Brushy Creek Arbor in 2016
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Anderson Camp Ground
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Anderson Camp Ground
Nearest city Brushy Creek, Williamson County, Texas
Coordinates 31°57′14″N95°37′23″W / 31.95389°N 95.62306°W / 31.95389; -95.62306
Area5.6 acres (2.3 ha)
Built1874 (1874)
Architectural style Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No. 82001735 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 27, 1982

Anderson Camp Ground (also known as Brushy Creek Arbor and United Methodist Church) is a historic camp ground in Brushy Creek, in Anderson County, Texas, United States (not to be confused with Brushy Creek in Williamson County, near Austin).

The Arbor is a wooden tent-like structure that was built in 1874. The Brushy Creek Methodist Church is a one-story Gothic Revival structure that was built in 1894.

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]

The last Methodist camp meetings at the camp ground occurred in the 1930s. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Ray M. Goodrow; Peter Flagg Maxon (December 11, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Anderson Camp Ground / Brushy Creek Arbor and United Methodist Church". National Archives. Retrieved April 20, 2018.Downloading may be slow.