​Bloys Camp Meeting

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Marker Text: Held each year since 1890. Founded by Rev. W. B. Bloys, a Presbyterian. His camp pulpit was an Arbuckle Coffee crate. First campers, 48 people from remote ranches and towns, slept in tents, wagons. Family groups had chuck-box meals, sharing with guests. Some 1,500 attend mid-August meetings today. Still nothing is ever sold in camp.
​     Baptists, Disciples of Christ, Methodists and Presbyterians incorporated the Cowboys' Camp Meeting in 1902. Site, Skillman Grove, has been a camp ground since the 1850s. Elevation is about 6,000 feet. (1966) 

Marker No: 10473

18 x 28 Aluminum Subject Marker 

Location: State Highway 166, 13.8 miles west of State Highway 17

Geographic: 30° 32.789′ N, 104° 8.405′ W