Piedmont Camp Meeting Grounds Historic District Explained

Piedmont Camp Meeting Grounds Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Designated Other1:Virginia Landmarks Register
Designated Other1 Date:June 20, 1989[1]
Designated Other1 Number:060-0500
Designated Other1 Num Position:bottom
Coordinates:37.1039°N -80.2175°W
Built:c., 1910, 1936, 1939
Architecture:Double-cell plan
Added:January 10, 1991
Refnum:90002003

Piedmont Camp Meeting Grounds Historic District is a national historic district located at Piedmont, Montgomery County, Virginia. The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings associated with a camp meeting, a seasonal religious campground. The district includes a large, rustic tabernacle (1939), a group ofsmall frame cabins, a dining hall in a former church building (c. 1910), the concrete block Piedmont Pentecostal Holiness Church (1936, 1957), and the nave-plan Piedmont Methodist Church (c. 1873), the district's oldest building. The tabernacle is the principal structure in the campground, and is an aisled gable roofed frame structure open on three sides and supported by untrimmed logs. The Piedmont Methodist Church is the church from which the Piedmont Pentecostal Holiness group broke away.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Virginia Landmarks Register. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. 5 June 2013.
  2. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Piedmont Camp Meeting Grounds Historic District . Gibson Worsham. June 1988. Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map