W of Brushy Creek on SR 837, Brushy Creek, Texas. County/parish: Anderson.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 27, 1982. NRIS 82001735.
3 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
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.
The last Methodist camp meetings at the camp ground occurred in the 1930s.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40970993