The term "burned-over district" refers to the western and parts of the central regions of New York State in the early 19th century, where religious revivals...
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Second Great Awakening (section Burned-over district)
religious revivals that would later earn this region the nickname "the burned-over district," which implied the area was set ablaze with spiritual fervor. This...
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Whitney Cross (section The Burned-over District)
was a mid-20th-century historian, best known as the author of The Burned-over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in...
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the movement, including Seventh Day Adventists. Category:Adventism Burned-over District Christian eschatology Christian revival Christianity in the 19th...
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wealthy and less educated. The center of revivalism was the so-called Burned-over district in western New York. Named for its overabundance of hellfire-and-damnation...
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fire. By the morning of June 7, the fire had burned 25 city blocks, including the entire business district, four of the city's wharves, and its railroad...
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222–223. Mark 10:15 Revelation 14:14–16 Cross, Whitney R. (1950). The Burned-over District: A Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western...
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known as a passionate revivalist preacher from 1825 to 1835 in the Burned-over District in Upstate New York and Manhattan, an opponent of Old School Presbyterian...
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19th-century reputation of Central and Western New York as the "Burned-over district" as well as the American movement of Spiritualism (centered in Lily...
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troops and mine guards. The camp was burned, resulting in 15 women and children, who hid in tents at the camp, being burned to death. Costs to both mine operators...
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