Balls Creek Campground

	Balls Creek Campground
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Balls Creek Campground, July 2010
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Location	West side of SR 1003, 0.1 miles (0.16 km) south of SR 1943, near
Coordinates	35°37′46″N 81°05′50″W / 35.62944°N 81.09722°WCoordinates: 35°37′46″N 81°05′50″W / 35.62944°N 81.09722°W
Area	31.1 acres (12.6 ha)
MPS	Catawba County MPS
NRHP reference No.	90000662
Added to NRHP	April 27, 1990

Balls Creek Campground is a historic Methodist camp meeting and national historic district located near Bandy's Crossroads, Catawba County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 138 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. They include the Arbor (c. 1930), "tents" (individual family dwellings) dating back to the 1850s, a store called "The Shack" (c. 1940), and jail dated to the late-19th / early-20th century. The site was established in 1853 and is believed to be one of the largest religious campgrounds in the southern United States.^[2] A camp meeting continues to be held there every August, with "tents" selling for as much as $65,000 each.^[3]

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.^[1]

On September 29, 2019, a "suspicious" fire destroyed or damaged 40 of the site's 295 cabins and elicited the response of more than 14 fire departments and over 100 firefighters from Catawba and surrounding counties.^[4]

References[]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Barbara Kooiman and Michael Hill (July 1989). "Balls Creek Campground" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
^ "Balls Creek Campmeeting is tradition, way of life and memories | The Observer News Enterprise". www.observernewsonline.com. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
^ Esposito, Gina; Faherty, Dave. "Investigators: Fire at historic campground set; no arrests made". WSOC TV.

External links[]

Balls Creek Campground website

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[nrhpinv-2] Barbara Kooiman and Michael Hill (July 1989). "Balls Creek Campground" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.

[3] "Balls Creek Campmeeting is tradition, way of life and memories | The Observer News Enterprise". www.observernewsonline.com. Retrieved 2019-06-21.

[4] Esposito, Gina; Faherty, Dave. "Investigators: Fire at historic campground set; no arrests made". WSOC TV.

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