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The original Cane Ridge Meeting House within the Stone Memorial Building. The Cane Ridge Revival was a large camp meeting that was held in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, from August 6 to August 12 or 13, 1801. It was the "[l]argest and most famous camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening."
The Cane Ridge Communion quickly became one of the best-reported events in American history, and according to Vanderbilt historian Paul Conkin, “arguably … the most important religious...
The Cane Ridge Revival. Impressed by the revivals in 1800, Barton Stone, a Presbyterian minister, organized similar meetings in 1801 which birthed the Cane Ridge Revival.
Cane Ridge remained the biggest, and unmatched in the unusual physical effects it produced. The meeting, which came to an end only when food ran out, was a significant event, helping make revivals a core element of American Protestantism.
Cane Ridge has gone down in history as the largest spiritual awakening, and perhaps the most far-reaching on the frontier, in American history. Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750-1858, by Ian Murray; Holy Fairs: Scotland and the Making of American Revivalism, by Leigh Eric Schmidt
Cane Ridge Meeting House, built in 1791, is a special place for many reasons. Hardy pioneers, following the advice of Daniel Boone, came to this ridge of canebrakes between two creeks to make their homes and build their church in the county of Kentucky in the state of Virginia.
Somewhere between 1800 and 1801, in the upper part of Kentucky, at a memorable place called “Cane Ridge,” there was appointed a sacramental meeting by some of the Presbyterian ministers, at which meeting, seemingly unexpected by ministers or people, the mighty power of God was displayed in a very extraordinary manner; many were moved to ...
