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    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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    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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  • 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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  • the disappointment. 2011 end times prediction Adventism Adventist Burned-over district Christian revival Christianity in the 19th century Day-year principle...
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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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    Genesee Country of Western New York, has been referred to as the burned-over district. There, in the 19th century, the Second Great Awakening was a revival...
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    This led evangelist Charles Grandison Finney to coin the term the "Burned-Over District" for the region. Because of the comparative isolation of the region...
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  • Upstate New York Erie Canal Corridor Western New York Holland Purchase Burned-over district Finger Lakes former Leatherstocking Country (now the Central New...
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  • his exploration of the esoteric and little known history of the Burned Over District of western New York State. As Leander Watts, he has published five...
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    deism, and rationalism. This movement was centered in the so-called "Burned-over district" in central and western New York State. Handsome Lake's revelations...
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    Osorkon showed no mercy, and burned several rebels alive. On the statute books, at least, women committing adultery might be burned to death. Jon Manchip White...
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    religion and the zeal for social reform, much as the more well-known Burned-over district of Western New York. Indeed, Dunbar grew up in the shadow of missionary...
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    Latter Day Saint movement was Joseph Smith, who was raised in the burned-over district of Upstate New York. Smith stated that, in response to prayer, he...
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    wheat and other grains. Some of the key settlers hailed from the burned-over district of western New York State, (an area notable for being a part of the...
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    Phoenix, reformers who came out of the revivals of the 1820s in the burned-over district of western New York. The brothers were reform-minded Baptists, against...
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    Wyoming County. Genesee County was included in the 19th century "burned-over district" — the Western region of New York consumed by religious revivals...
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    Finger Lakes. The Countryman Press. p. 136. ISBN 0-88150-655-9. The Burned-Over District: Evolution of County Boundaries. Oliver Cowdery Home Page Archived...
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  • Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Cross, Whitney R. (1950). The Burned-Over District: The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in...
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  • At Sodus Bay, John H. Martin, Saints, Sinners and Reformers: The Burned-Over District Re-Visited, Retrieved Dec. 23, 2015. "National Register Information...
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    times with intense revivalism that it later became known as the burned-over district. As an early adolescent, the revivalism both interested and confused...
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  • Early Care in Rural New York 1808–1950 (2011) Cross, Whitney R. The Burned-over District; the social and intellectual history of enthusiastic religion in...
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  • for hot Chicken McNugget that burned girl". AP News. May 12, 2023. Retrieved May 14, 2023. "Jury awards Florida girl burned by McDonald's Chicken McNugget...
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    1837 cabin to the site. Goodrich was a Seventh Day Baptist from the Burned-over district of western New York, and like most people of his faith, he was known...
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    Lawrence J. (March 1980). "The Gerrit Smith Circle: Abolitionism in the Burned-Over District". Civil War History. 26 (1): 18–38. doi:10.1353/cwh.1980.0009. S2CID 144487199...
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  • systematically burned down over 17 days by the Romans at the end of the Third Punic War 64 – Great Fire of Rome, Italy 79 – Lyon burned to ashes. 406 –...
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