Of Piety and Pleasure: The Mountain Grove Camp Meeting

Posted by on Nov 29, 2013 in | Comments Off on Of Piety and Pleasure: The Mountain Grove Camp Meeting Scrub and sump holes mark its site today, but a century ago the cacophony of a typical nineteenth century camp meeting reverberated through­out the valley each August at Mountain Grove. Between 1872 and 1901 thousands of people came each summer to this idyllic spot in western Luzerne County for recreation and religion offered by the Danville District of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the...
read more