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Mt. Carmel Campground

Mt. Carmel Campground is a South Carolina historical marker in Heath Springs vicinity, Lancaster County, dedicated 1981.

Lancaster County · dedicated 1981 · Mt. Carmel Rd. (S.C. Sec. Rd. 29-19), just S of its intersection with S.C. Sec. Rd. 29-620, S of Cauthen’s Crossroads, Heath Springs vicinity

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Front: According to local tradition, this African Methodist Episcopal Zion Campground was established c.1870. Instrumental in organizing the campground was former slave Isom Caleb Clinton, who was ordained Bishop of the church in 1892. Through the years the campground has flourished; hundreds now participate in the annual ecumenical encampment. Reverse: Mt. Carmel A.M.E.Z. Campground was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Frederick A. Clinton (1834-1890), organizer and lifetime trustee of Mt. Carmel, brother of Bishop I. C. Clinton and the first Lancaster County black elected to the S.C. Senate (1870-1877), is buried here.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
Sponsored by Mt. Carmel A.M.E. Zion Church

Mt. Carmel Campground

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