Cape Cod, new & old . W AND OLD special fame. That fame rests on its being thegreat camp-meeting center of Cape Cod. Here,in the Millennium Grove, every year for aweek, men, women, and children congregatein a sort of extended revival meeting, gettingand giving fresh impetus to religious progress,and to the progress of_Methodism through allNew England. It was South Wellfleet that held the firstcamp meeting on Cape Cod. This was in 1819,and was followed by religious revivals in Prov-incetown and Eastham. In 1826 the encamp-ment was held at Truro, and two years laterit moved to Eastham. It is fro
Cape Cod, new & old . W AND OLD special fame. That fame rests on its being thegreat camp-meeting center of Cape Cod. Here,in the Millennium Grove, every year for aweek, men, women, and children congregatein a sort of extended revival meeting, gettingand giving fresh impetus to religious progress,and to the progress of_Methodism through allNew England. It was South Wellfleet that held the firstcamp meeting on Cape Cod. This was in 1819,and was followed by religious revivals in Prov-incetown and Eastham. In 1826 the encamp-ment was held at Truro, and two years laterit moved to Eastham. It is from this latterplace that the history of the Methodist Epis-copal Church on Cape Cod really dates, andas we see the white-spired churches, dottingthe scattered hamlets all through BarnstableCounty, we cannot help but be struck by thesignificance of the religion which ever since itsinception has been unbrokenly characteristicof this region. The early days at Eastham were marked byfervor and discomfort. One who decided to. YARMOUTH AND METHODISM 61 attend the camp meeting first had to drive toBarnstable; from there take a vessel to East-ham; row from the vessel to shallow water; becarted through the shallow water by a farmwagon; and then walk a mile through the sandto the Camp-Meeting Grounds. There wereno cottages; no tabernacle. The seats were ofbare planks without backs, and the preachersslept on the floor — on straw — in a woodenshack. There was but one well on the grounds,and one man was commissioned to do all thepumping for those who wanted water. In themorning one saw the reenactment of ancientBiblical scenes, in the scores and scores of per-sons, waiting with their bowls and pitchers tobe served with the water that was to last themthrough the day. Strenuous as this regime was, neverthelessthe Camp-Meeting Ground at Eastham heldits own for thirty years. Then it was movedto Yarmouth, the extension of the Old ColonyRailroad down to this point making it anaccessible gatheri
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