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  2. Cane Ridge, Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    Cane Ridge is located in Bourbon County, Kentucky, near Paris. The ridge was named by the explorer Daniel Boone, who had noticed a form of bamboo growing there. The Cane Ridge building and grounds had many unusual aspects. The 1791 Cane Ridge Meeting House is believed to be the largest single-room log structure in North America. The burial ...

  3. Cane Ridge Revival - Wikipedia

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    The original Cane Ridge Meeting House within the Stone Memorial Building. The Cane Ridge Revival was a large camp meeting that was held in Cane Ridge, Kentucky, from August 6 to August 12 or 13, 1801. [1] [2] It was the "[l]argest and most famous camp meeting of the Second Great Awakening."

  4. Colonial National Historical Park - Wikipedia

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    Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. VA-115, "Colonial National Historical Park Roads & Bridges, Yorktown, York County, VA", 119 data pages HAER No. VA-116, " Jamestown Island Loop Road, Jamestown Island, Jamestown, James City County, VA ", 10 photos, 4 color transparencies, 1 measured drawing, 14 data pages, 2 photo caption pages

  5. Cane Ridge Meeting House - Wikipedia

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    This movement is often noted as the first one indigenous to American soil." [1] In the 1930s a stone building was constructed around the original log structure. The church is still used for worship. Bust of Barton W. Stone, in cemetery at Cane Ridge Cane Ridge "Shrine", built around the Meeting House in 1954

  6. Second Great Awakening - Wikipedia

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    A year later, in August 1801, an even larger sacrament occasion that is generally considered to be America's first camp meeting was held at Cane Ridge in Bourbon County, Kentucky, under Barton W. Stone (1772–1844) with numerous Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist ministers participating in the services. The six-day gathering attracting ...

  7. William Russell (Virginia politician) - Wikipedia

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    William Russell (1735 – January 14, 1793) was an army officer and a prominent settler of the southwestern region of the Virginia Colony.He led an early attempt to settle the "Kentuckee Territory" (then part of Virginia).

  8. Yorktown Victory Monument - Wikipedia

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    1902 photomechanical print of the monument. The Yorktown Victory Monument is a monument erected in Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, Virginia, commemorating the 1781 victory at Yorktown and the alliance with France that brought about the end of the American Revolution and the resulting peace with England after the American Revolutionary War.

  9. Virginia in the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    Patrick Henry's speech on the Virginia Resolves. The history of Virginia in the American Revolution begins with the role the Colony of Virginia played in early dissent against the British government and culminates with the defeat of General Cornwallis by the allied forces at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781, an event that signaled the effective military end to the conflict.