yes, there does seem to have been a Camp Meeting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_meeting) in Portsmouth RI; apparently it had been active on the order of 100 years ago and operates today as a religious summer camp.
as they were quite widespread a cursory online search is bound to omit many; I was trying to locate ones whose facilities later became a residential community.
did you have the impression that this was the case?
if so I should edit the post accordingly.
though I have family in the Providence/Warwick area I must confess to not having even heard of that Portsmouth before, though I have been to the ones in Hampshire UK, NH, OH and VA; just not RI.
oh, well, here in the Grove we are used to obscurity.
this cottage, and the Town in which it is located, owe their existence to the Camp Meeting movement, hence my historical interest.
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yes, there does seem to have been a Camp Meeting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_meeting) in Portsmouth RI; apparently it had been active on the order of 100 years ago and operates today as a religious summer camp. as they were quite widespread a cursory online search is bound to omit many; I was trying to locate ones whose facilities later became a residential community. did you have the impression that this was the case? if so I should edit the post accordingly.
though I have family in the Providence/Warwick area I must confess to not having even heard of that Portsmouth before, though I have been to the ones in Hampshire UK, NH, OH and VA; just not RI. oh, well, here in the Grove we are used to obscurity.
this cottage, and the Town in which it is located, owe their existence to the Camp Meeting movement, hence my historical interest.