July 6, 1916 – Big Free Methodist Camp Meeting

The Free Methodist camp meeting was held in the Ferguson Orchard.   Seventy tents housed the participants.  The meeting was at capacity each day.  Rev. W.W. Spiker elder of the district of Rochester, Pa., was in charge.   The orchard where the meeting was held belonged to Cyrus Ferguson who purchased a house and property from the Mahan family near where the Follansbee Middle School stands today.

  • Steubenville Weekly Gazette, July 6, 1916,