Anderson Camp Ground
a.k.a. Brushy Creek Arbor and United Methodist Church
W of Brushy Creek on SR 837, Brushy Creek, TXReligious camp meetings were part of the 19th- and early 20th-century ecclesiastical and social history of America. But while these were once very common among protestant congregations in many parts of the country/there are few visible remains associated with that phenomenon which survive today. Arbors--open-sided, roofed frame structures used to shelter these gatherings--do not appear to have been built with permanence in mind, and the Brushy Creek Arbor may well be one of the few such edifice in Texas to have survived intact from the 1870s. The Arbor, i t s associated church built in 1874,and the surrounding landscape remain essentially unchanged, retaining their 19th-centurycharacter to a remarkable degree.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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