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  Cane Ridge, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cane Ridge, Kentucky, USA was the site, in 1801, of a large camp meeting which drew thousands of people and had a lasting influence as one of the landmark events of the Second Great Awakening.
Cane Ridge is located in Bourbon County, Kentucky near Paris.
The ridge was named by Daniel Boone when he went through the area, and noticed a form of bamboo growing in the area.
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 Starting from Cane Ridge
Cane Ridge is considered, by many Restorationists, to be the incipient event launching the Restoration movement.
Rather, what propelled me from Cane Ridge first to Canterbury and finally to Antioch was the discovery of the historical and liturgical worship of the Church.
The process of leaving Cane Ridge for Canterbury was a long one, and was not accomplished in one single decision.
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Kentucky's largest cities and most of the fast growing counties are concentrated in what is referred to as the Golden Triangle, framed by Louisville, Lexington and the suburban Northern Kentucky region.
Kentucky is one of 38 states in the United States that sanctions the death penalty for certain crimes.
ACLU of Kentucky, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that a display of the Ten Commandments in the Whitley City courthouse of McCreary County was unconstitutional.
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 Cane Ridge Meeting House 1801   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Cane Ridge revival planted religious idealism and was the first great social gathering in a new state emerging from the fearful isolation of its violent frontier days.
In the years leading up to Cane Ridge, Methodist and Baptist churches were having small revivals, but the largest crowds were gathering for Presbyterian communion services, which were part of a centuries-old tradition, imported by Scottish immigrants, that combined intense religious services with social gatherings.
The burial ground at Cane Ridge holds the grave of Barton Stone, host of a landmark 1801 revival and a patriarch of the Christian Church movement.
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 Cane Ridge | Bourbon, KY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nestled among Kentucky's rolling hills and gracious horse farms, Cane Ridge Meeting House is located on State Highway 537 in Bourbon County, Kentucky.
His role in the Cane Ridge Revival and the development of the Christians of the West sparked the desire to restore the Meeting House to its original appearance.
After the Historic American Buildings Survey visited Cane Ridge in 1934, it was recognized by the US Dept. of the Interior as a building of national significance deemed worthy of saving.
www.ccinky.net /CaneRidge/home.html   (685 words)

  
 Music of Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bluegrass music is of particular regional importance; Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass music", was born in Rosine, Kentucky, and he named his band, the Blue Grass Boys, after the bluegrass state, i.e., Kentucky.
The Kentucky Opry in Prestonburg is a major institution, using the Mountain Arts Center.
The Festival of the Bluegrass is held every June at the Kentucky Horse Park and considered one of the premier traditional bluegrass festivals in the country.
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 OpinionJournal - Taste
BOURBON COUNTY, Ky.--Scholars and communicants are meeting this week alongside a small log church on a ridge in the horse country east of Lexington, Ky. They have gathered to commemorate a Christian revival that took place 200 years ago and to look to the future of their own churches.
The Cane Ridge meetinghouse is now probably the largest one-room log structure still standing in the U.S., with seating for 300 (almost half of that in the balcony, originally built for slaves).
But events that followed Cane Ridge were not always in the socially conscious or nondenominational mode envisioned by Barton Stone.
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 Cane Ridge Kentucky old Meeting House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Cane Ridge shrine/superstructure in the picture above (constructed in the 1950s of the rare tan Cane Ridge stone) encloses the Old Cane Ridge Meeting House which was built in 1791.
Bourbon County, Kentucky, was the location the settlers were directed to by Daniel Boone, who called the area "the Cane Ridge" because of the extensive canebrakes found there.
He had been to the new emotional revival meetings of Presbyterian minister James McGready in Logan County, and was astounded at the immediacy of the conversion process: the congregation was feverish and many had "the jerks" or had collapsed and were rolling on the floor in anguish for their sins.
www.sendrevival.com /history/caneridge/old_cane_ridge_meeting_house.htm   (474 words)

  
 August 6: Revival at Cane Ridge
Cane Ridge had become the most famous frontier revival.
So charged was the atmosphere in Kentucky that everyone expected great things when the Presbyterian minister Barton W. Stone scheduled a Communion for this time, the first week of August, now almost two hundred years ago.
Cane Ridge (a small town a day's ride from Lexington in those times of primitive transportation) was inundated with humanity.
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Elmer Towns: Cane Ridge was in Kentucky in 1800.
But as you look at Cane Ridge, it had the Pentecostal manifestations that some of the other revivals didn't have.
These were the great things that changed the frontier from being a place of what we would call the wild west, with all types of lawlessness, to people wanting law and order because God had come into their life.
www.cbn.com /700club/scottross/commentary/FOR_CaneRidge.aspx   (599 words)

  
 Cane Ridge West   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
During the Civil War, a member of the church disassembled the church and stored the logs in his barn, to prevent its destruction; then it was restored after the War.
Daniel Boone actually coined the phrase "cane ridge;" immediately west of the original structure there once was a stretch of cane growth ~~ the same cane as is used in fishing poles, 1 mile wide and 18 miles long.
Cane Ridge West was dedicated on September 1, 1984, and is in use every week of the year by many different groups.
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 Autobiography of Rev
The commencement of the revival is traceable to the joint labors of two brothers in Cumberland county, Kentucky, one of whom was a Presbyterian and the other a Methodist preacher.
In the spring of 1801 Bishop M'Kendree was appointed presiding elder of the Kentucky district; and being thus brought in contact with this wonderful work, he was prepared to form a correct judgement of its character.
The wild vagaries adopted by the Newlight preachers of Kentucky prepared them to gulp down all the ridiculus tenets of Shakerism, and this produced a general skepticism in that state, that, I fear, will not be done away for generations.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~sshoemak/323/texts/cane_ridge_revival.htm   (3415 words)

  
 Christians Honor 200th Anniversary Of Cane Ridge Revival in Kentucky - Charisma Magazine
Named for the bamboo that grew on nearby hillsides, Cane Ridge attracted as many as 25,000 people, though historical estimates vary.
Despite the controversy, Cane Ridge spurred the spread of Christianity in America.
The event concluded with the Lord's Supper after the Rev. William de Arteaga, an Episcopal priest, traced the role of Scotch-Irish communion festivals in the events at Cane Ridge.
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 Cane Ridge | Bourbon, KY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Also surrounding it were special speeches and papers prepared as a defense of this departure of these Christians from their established church, a church that had organized and planted churches in the newly settled areas of Kentucky and given them a home for witness.
Cane Ridge needs information on persons planning to come and has prepared a response form to return.
Too, like the successful celebration for the 1801 Revival, the major focus of presentations at Cane Ridge is on present faith, with the past as the great reference by which we conduct our lives and work as Christians in today’s world.
www.ccinky.net /CaneRidge/lastwillanniversary.html   (441 words)

  
 Cane Ridge, Kentucky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Cane Ridge is in Bourbon county east of Paris between Hinkston Creek and Stoner Creek.
The Cane Ridge Meetinghouse was built there in 1791 by Presbyterians and was the site of a revival meeting in August 1801.
A Cane Ridge post office operated in the neighborhood from 1876 until 1905.
www.uky.edu /KentuckyAtlas/ky-cane-ridge.html   (143 words)

  
 3Q Version:THE VOICE OF HIM THAT CRIETH IN THE WILDERNESS
In 1801 there was a sensational revival in Cane Ridge, Kentucky that lasted for weeks.
The excesses in Cane Ridge produced expectations for preachers and those seeking religious experience.
The Cane Ridge Meeting became the paradigm for revivalists for decades.
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 William Rogers
William Rogers was a leader in the church at Cane Ridge, Kentucky in the early 1800s.
It was reported that he served in various capacities among his brothers and sisters at Cane Ridge Church of Christ.
Then there are others places of note: Raccoon John Smith's memorial stone in Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, Kentucky, identifies him as an elder in the Church of Christ.
www.therestorationmovement.com /rogers,wm.htm   (823 words)

  
 cane_ridge
The sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered at the church of Red River (near the Tennessee-Kentucky border), which was ministered to, in connection with the Gasper and Muddy river congregations, by the Rev. James McGready who had recently come from Orange county, North Carolina.
Beginning at Flemingsburgh in April, moving to Cabin Creek, where a camp meeting was held, then Concord, in Bourbon County, by the last of May and Eagle Creek in Adams Co., Ohio in the beginning of June.
The most of the members of Orangedale church which was in Lemon township, Butler county, not far from Lebanon, also came.
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 cgh5.HTM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The ecstasies of Cane Ridge tapped a mysterious current of sensation and perception that emanated from the slaves.
When the whole system was affected, I have seen the person stand in one place, and jerk backward and forward in quick succession, their head nearly touching the floor behind and before.
The description, by one of the leaders of the Cane Ridge revival, of some of the bodily agitations or exercises which enlivened it, is humorous almost to the point of slapstick.
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 This is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis: Starting from Cane Ridge Archives
So, from the fall of 1989 through the end of my schooling at Ozark, significant changes were occurring, changes which involved a major restructuring of my worldview as well as major changes in my theological understanding.
My five years at Ozark Christian College are a period in my life to which I look back with nostalgia, thanksgiving and joy.
I was born at the time of the split in the Disciples, so my upbringing in the Stone-Campbell churches reflected the difficult feelings resultant from the split.
chattablogs.com /aionioszoe/archives/cat_starting_from_cane_ridge.html   (7401 words)

  
 Decatur Settlers Religious Activities
The Great Revival held at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1801 provided momentum for many of the Protestant denominations entering Illinois, including the Disciples of Christ.
Situated on the west side of the square, services were held in the court house in 1833 by the pioneer preacher, Joseph Hostetler.
Using the reform theology of the Cane Ridge Revival, he organized a small group of parishioners into the Christian Church of Macon County in 1834.
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 Kentucky Life 301   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Their six acres are filled with native plants and water gardens -- a Kentucky Garden of Eden transformed from a patch of vertical scrub surrounding a forbidding house.
The Cane Ridge revival is credited as the impetus for the founding of the Christian Church and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denominations and with helping to attract the Shakers to Kentucky.
Directions: The Cane Ridge Meetinghouse and museum are located on KY 537 off US 460.
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 "Back To...Square One"
Cane Ridge, Kentucky is located not too far from the West Virginia border.
In August of 1801 local Presbyterian minister Barton W. Stone of Cane Ridge announced a great assembly, or "camp meeting" would be held at Cane Ridge.
The reason given for the assembly by Pastor Barton was "for the promotion of a deeper faith." On the appointed date, over 25,000 people gathered to hear simple, emotionally charged preaching from several Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist preachers.
www.mindspring.com /~jackson2/www/sermons/08-03-97.htm   (1474 words)

  
 Cane Books
Canes: From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
The revival: This being the first summer of the new century we invite you to Cane Ridge, Kentucky to be part of a camp meeting...,
Seasonal migration and co-operative capitalism: The crushing of cane and of labour by the sugar factories of Bardoli, South Gujarat
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 Cane Ridge Elementary School - Paris, Kentucky - KY - school overview
Cane Ridge Elementary School - Paris, Kentucky - KY - school overview
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An opportunity for the principal at Cane Ridge Elementary School to speak about curriculum, special programs, activities, goals and more.
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 Nineteenth Century Revivals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
James McGready, a Presbyterian minister in Kentucky, promoted the prayer meetings every first Monday of the month, and urged his people to pray for him at sunset on Saturday evening and sunrise Sunday morning.
Revival swept Kentucky in the summer of 1800.
Impressed by the revivals in 1800, Barton Stone, a Presbyterian minister, organised similar meetings in 1801 in his area at Cane Ridge north-east of Lexington.
www.christianword.org /revival/2-1800.html   (2825 words)

  
 James Hicklin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The grave is not easily identified, although John Rogers said that though his headstone says he was buried in 1819, that he reckoned it was actually 1820 when he died.
Very little is known of this gospel preacher buried at Cane Ridge, Kentucky
Presently the stones that are identifiable in the Rogers plot are all members of the Rogers family.
www.therestorationmovement.com /hicklin.htm   (91 words)

  
 Kentucky.gov: - Press Release
Throughout November, KET and the Kentucky Historical Society will celebrate the life of the man who continues to be the Commonwealth’s best- known and most respected historian, the late Dr. Thomas Clark, with a statewide “Treasures Tour,” officially recognizing each site designated by Dr. Clark as a Kentucky Treasure.
An agency of the Kentucky Commerce Cabinet, the Kentucky Historical Society, since 1836, has provided connections to the past, perspective on the present and inspiration for the future.
KHS operates the Old State Capitol, Kentucky Military History Museum and its seven-year-old headquarters, the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History.
kentucky.gov /Newsroom/history/PR102606a.htm   (410 words)

  
 Stone-Campbell encyclopedia to be debuted at bicentennial celebration
The first-ever comprehensive reference book about the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement will be debuted at a bicentennial celebration at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, June 26.
Douglas Foster, Abilene Christian University professor of church history and director of the Center for Restoration Studies, was one of three general editors of the Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement.
The debut of the encyclopedia will take place on the first day of a three-day bicentennial celebration in Cane Ridge, Ky. Other events scheduled include tours of the grounds, a re-enactment of the signing and several lectures.
www.acu.edu /events/news/archives2004/040602_stone_campbell.html   (499 words)

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