Sadness at Cattle Creek

Cattle Creek Campground, Rowesville, SC    

I have visited a few of the tent campgrounds in South Carolina and consider myself fortunate to be have been invited to one during camp meeting week so I was heart broken last month when I heard that a fire had destroyed over a dozen of the historic wooden tent structures at the Cattle Creek campground.  The fire apparantly started as a grass fire but was considered suspicious. It broke my heart watching owners come to see their tent in ashes. Previous visit: Cattle Creek Campground

Cattle Creek Campground

Cattle Creek Campground, S.C,

I've featured a couple of these church based campgrounds and this evening I am presenting Cattle Creek. Wooden tent cabins are built in a circle and used once a year for revival style camps. There were a few differences at this camp. Piles of hay appear to be delivered to each unit to cover the dirt floors. Cattle Creek has a proper white church and a cemetery on the property so the cabins didn't form a complete circle. The meeting house was still in the middle.

There wasn't much evidence of outhouses and I read that some of the campgrounds now have porta-lets delivered. The campgrounds are usually used once a year but this one had a bonus July agenda posted on the door. It recommended that children were bathing suits to Children's Services.

Edit: Sorry for the typos, kids. I discover some of them in the morning and patch the entry up.