Carrie's Quilt "Old Time Camp Meetings"

This block shows an old time camp meeting.  They would put up their tents east of the cotton gin in Lexington.  They would have Baptists first and then Methodist and once in awhile the Church of Christ.  People would come in from out in the country in their wagons.  They would camp down by the creek for two weeks.  On the left side of the picture is the town pump on Main Street.  You would pump the water into the trough to water your horses.  She drew a cowboy pumping water for his horse.   Sometimes they would bring their cook stoves with them in their covered wagons, so they could serve meals there.  They would gather the firewood close to the creek.  Linda Ruth asked her "how long were the meetings?"  About two weeks was the rule she said.  "What time of year would they have the camp meetings?"  "After they had laid their crops by, so they would have time to come to the meetings."  "I have seen them take their milk cows into the camp meeting with them and the cows would graze along the creek.