East of Highway is Site of Old Waugh Campground (Owned 1941-90 by the Methodist Church)
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Marker Text: Given to Methodist church as a camp-meeting site, by the Isaac S. Addison family. Mrs. Addison named camp in honor of Bishop Beverly Waugh, who presided at first Methodist Conference in Texas, and who, like the Addisons, was from Baltimore, Md. Site was used for quarterly conferences of the church and for revivals. Converted here was The Rev. B. H. Carroll (1843-1914), great Baptist leader. Campground was open also for secular gatherings. A famous occasion was the July 16, 1857, debate between U.S. Senator Sam Houston and Judge A. S. Broaddus, a Burleson County leader. (1972)
Marker No: 8656
Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker
Geographic: 30.598663,-96.684052
Location: from Caldwell take SH 21 east about 1.5 mile to FM 2000, go north about 3.5 miles to marker on east side of road
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