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First Bloys Camp Meeting held in Big Bend region
On this day in 1890, forty-three people gathered under a brush arbor in the Davis Mountains for the first Bloys Camp Meeting. The site was Skillman's Grove, sixteen miles southwest of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County. The annual revival was still going strong at the end of the twentieth century, sponsored by Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, and Disciples of Christ.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- BLOYS CAMP MEETING
- BLOYS, WILLIAM BENJAMIN
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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- First issue of Telegraph and Texas Register published (1835)
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