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"Looking at Carroll" Part II Page 4
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The first Methodist Camp Ground was one mile south of Carroll in a woods owned by the Meason family. Meas Winter, later Carroll’s postmaster, and his sisters Jennie, Mary and Allie, grew up on this farm which lies between the farm homes of Mr. Curtis and Mrs. Mollie Drumm. This was a beautiful little spot for the Camp Meeting. Everyone lived in tents and in the center of the gounds was a tabernacle made of canvas. There was plenty of room for hitching the horses of those who came for the day, and they could buy feed for the horses. John Azbell, a prominent Carroll hotel keeper of those days, ran a hack to the grounds. The fare was five cents for a one-way trip, or six tickets for twenty-five cents. If you wanted to travel this way, you went to the hotel and waited on benches under the beautiful shade trees. Many of the young people walked and enjoyed it. This was a deeply consecrated group of Christian workers who came from all near-by towns, and I recall one family from Columbus.
Shortly after I first attended the Camp Meeting, the Methodist Association bought the beautiful Lancaster Camp Ground property three miles north of Lancaster, which has been enjoyed by Methodists from far and near. I remember men like Sam Jones, Sam Small, George R. Stewart, the Southern orator, Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan, William McKinley (at that time Governor of Ohio), Homer Rodeheaver and E. O. Excell, singers, and many returned missionaries (some home on leave of absence), several Methodist bishops, Dr. Rollin Walker of Ohio Wesleyan University, who taught the daily Bible class, and many others. This place of beauty now has many modern comforts which we never dreamed of in the early days at the old location, including a good hotel, cafeteria, swimming pool, natural gas, water tanks and comfortable cottages. How I love to relive all these scenes dear to my childhood.
Grandmother always had a tent and took my sister Lillie and me. The rest of the family would drive in for the day. We loved living in the tent. Later people began building permanent cottages and we bought one in 1901 from Rev. Wykoff. It was composed of four rooms at the time and was called Twin Maples, from the two beautiful trees which shaded the cottage. You could reach these beautiful grounds in the early days by the Hocking Valley Railroad, later also by the Scioto Valley Traction cars. Now it can be reached quickly by automobile, or you can fly and just drop down. Yes, we are moving fast, but I often wonder where to and for what.
Among the early business houses of Carroll was the dry goods store operated by the Saylor brothers, Andrew and Robert, in the Weaver Building. They bought their supplies from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They later sold the store to Wesley Holmes and during his ownership the store burned twice. Mr. Holmes rebuilt the store where Bill Beaty has his real estate office and barber shop.
Shortly after I first attended the Camp Meeting, the Methodist Association bought the beautiful Lancaster Camp Ground property three miles north of Lancaster, which has been enjoyed by Methodists from far and near. I remember men like Sam Jones, Sam Small, George R. Stewart, the Southern orator, Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan, William McKinley (at that time Governor of Ohio), Homer Rodeheaver and E. O. Excell, singers, and many returned missionaries (some home on leave of absence), several Methodist bishops, Dr. Rollin Walker of Ohio Wesleyan University, who taught the daily Bible class, and many others. This place of beauty now has many modern comforts which we never dreamed of in the early days at the old location, including a good hotel, cafeteria, swimming pool, natural gas, water tanks and comfortable cottages. How I love to relive all these scenes dear to my childhood.
Grandmother always had a tent and took my sister Lillie and me. The rest of the family would drive in for the day. We loved living in the tent. Later people began building permanent cottages and we bought one in 1901 from Rev. Wykoff. It was composed of four rooms at the time and was called Twin Maples, from the two beautiful trees which shaded the cottage. You could reach these beautiful grounds in the early days by the Hocking Valley Railroad, later also by the Scioto Valley Traction cars. Now it can be reached quickly by automobile, or you can fly and just drop down. Yes, we are moving fast, but I often wonder where to and for what.
Among the early business houses of Carroll was the dry goods store operated by the Saylor brothers, Andrew and Robert, in the Weaver Building. They bought their supplies from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. They later sold the store to Wesley Holmes and during his ownership the store burned twice. Mr. Holmes rebuilt the store where Bill Beaty has his real estate office and barber shop.