The sacramental meeting at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, draws crowds estimated in the tens of thousands and extraordinary bodily exercises; the revival ignites the Restoration impulse on the frontier and Barton Stone's Christian movement within it.
Tagged: Revival Christian Restorationist
The Event
- Date
- 1801 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Cane Ridge; today Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Restorationist
- Key figures
- Barton W. Stone
Primary Sources
- Barton W. Stone, autobiographical accounts of Cane Ridge
Secondary Sources
- González, The Story of Christianity, vols. 1–2 (Harper, 2010)
Provenance: HIST-0079; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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