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Purchase of the Camp Ground

Vineyard Gazette | Friday, June 16 1865 - 9:59am

The camp ground upon Martha’s Vineyard, heretofore leased by the Vineyard Camp Meeting Association, has been purchased by that body for the sum of $1200.

Camp Meeting History
 

 

 

Parishioners Seek Donations So Hezekiah May Toll Again

Mark Lovewell
There was a time at the Oak Bluffs Camp Ground when a bell atop Trinity Church rang the beginning of summer’s festive events, just as it would ea
Friday, March 19 1982 - 3:03pm
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The Singing 1920's

Miriam Huss Williamson
The singing 1920’s are happy years I recall as the years of a community-serving Tabernacle.
 
Singing could be heard alm
Friday, August 3 1979 - 8:23pm
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Oak Bluffs Camp Ground Makes Register

Vineyard Gazette
The Camp Ground at Oak Bluffs is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Michael J.
Friday, February 9 1979 - 8:48pm
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Again An Old-Fashioned Oak Bluffs Illumination

Vineyard Gazette
Stars sparkled, pink and gold and orange lanterns bobbed, and a soft wind played among the chimes in the Camp Ground Wednesday night for the 104t
Friday, August 16 1974 - 4:28pm
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Editorial: Centennial of a Purchase

Vineyard Gazette
A hundred years ago the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meet­ing Association, having decided that the time had come to assure a settled state, acquired by
Friday, June 25 1965 - 8:29pm
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It Was a Paradise or a Wilderness That Camping Site

Vineyard Gazette
The modern town of Oak Bluffs traces its origin to a camp meeting held at the site, then a paradise or a wilderness — most people thought the for
Friday, May 6 1960 - 1:15pm
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