Cane Ridge
Presbyterian meeting place in Bourbon County, Kentucky, where Barton Stone was minister and where a great camp meeting was held in August 1801. The Springfield Presbytery dissolved itself here in 1804.
Barton Stone became preacher to the congregation of Cane Ridge, in Bourbon County, at the end of 1796 (Stone, Biography, p. 25). The meeting that began there in August 1801 drew a crowd that he says was reckoned at twenty to thirty thousand (Stone, Biography, pp. 37–38). The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery describes that body as “sitting at Caneridge, in the county of Bourbon” (Stone, Biography, p. 51). See the Second Great Awakening.
What happened here
- August 1801, firm dateThe Second Great Awakening
In August 1801 a great crowd camps for a week of preaching at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, the church of the Presbyterian minister Barton Stone, and carries the revival home. In the 1830s Charles Finney teaches that a revival is the result of the right use of means.