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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."
Friday, August 6, 1801—wagons and carriages bounced along narrow Kentucky roads, kicking up dust and excitement as hundreds of men, women, and children pressed toward Cane Ridge, a church...
Revival in the early nineteenth century not only impacted the American frontier, but also towns and especially colleges. One widespread result in America, as in England, was the formation of missionary societies to train and direct the large numbers of converts who were filled with missionary zeal.
The Revival of August 1801 at Cane Ridge was the climactic event of the Western Great Revival. It was estimated by military personnel that some 20,000 to 30,000 persons of all ages, representing various cultures and economic levels traveled on foot and on horseback, many bringing wagons with tents and camping provisions.
In addition to its role in establishing revivalism and exemplifying the tendency in Protestantism – perhaps especially in American Protestantism – to return to the Bible, the story of Cane Ridge and Barton Stone exhibits the mobility of Americans in the early republic.
Apr 28, 2010 · Revival has often emerged after an intense time of prayer and confession. Cane Ridge was no exception. Recognizing that many people on the Western frontier were indifferent to faith or actively opposed to it, pastors and Christians began to set aside time for prayer that revival might come.
Cane Ridge. Yet the full force of the movement was yet to be experienced, and it came about through the activity of Barton W. Stone (1772–1844), Presbyterian pastor of the Cane Ridge and Concord churches, northeast of Lexington, Kentucky.
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
One of the earliest and largest revivals of the Second Great Awakening occurred in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, over a one-week period in August 1801. The Cane Ridge Revival drew between 10,000 to 20,000 people, possibly as many as one in every ten residents of Kentucky.
Most historians evaluated the Kentucky Revival as a whole, which included the Cane Ridge Revival. They asserted that the revivals "improved morality, increased church membership, and encouraged urgently needed humanitarian reform," 5• that they "were religiously constructive,,, •s served as a "social meeting place," emphasized "re-
