Details for Waugh Campground

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5051008656

Data

Marker Number 8656
Atlas Number 5051008656
Marker Title Waugh Campground
Index Entry Waugh Campground
Address
City Caldwell
County Burleson
UTM Zone 14
UTM Easting 722044
UTM Northing 3387413
Subject Codes camp meetings; churches; Methodist (Methodist Episcopal and United Methodist) denomination
Marker Year 1972
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location from Caldwell take SH 21 E about 1.5 mile to FM 2000, go N about 3.5 miles to marker on E side of road
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Text Given to Methodist church as a camp-meeting site, by the Isaac S. Addison family. Mrs. Addison named camp in honor of Bishop Beverly Waugh, who presided at first Methodist Conference in Texas, and who, like the Addisons, was from Baltimore, Md. Site was used for quarterly conferences of the church and for revivals. Converted here was The Rev. B. H. Carroll (1843-1914), great Baptist leader. Campground was open also for secular gatherings. A famous occasion was the July 16, 1857, debate between U.S. Senator Sam Houston and Judge A. S. Broaddus, a Burleson County leader.

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