Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp

The Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association was established in 1894 as a winter counterpart to the Spiritualist camps of western New York. The founding story the camp itself tells: a young Spiritualist medium was told in a seance that he would found a Spiritualist community in the South, was led through central Florida wilderness by his spirit guide to land of uncommon hills, homesteaded it, and deeded the land to the association's founders. The camp is now about fifty-seven acres with some fifty-five homes, a National Register historic district since 1991, and by the camp's own description the oldest continuously active religious community in the southeastern United States.

Unlike the northern camps, Cassadaga runs year-round: weekly church services, a bookshop, tours, and mediums and healers working from their homes, with certification through the camp's own process. The village streets are residential and quiet; the feel is a small neighborhood organized around a religion most of Florida ignores. Visitors come for readings, Sunday services, and the sense of a place built entirely around the conviction that the dead remain reachable.

Visiting

Service schedules, medium listings, and visit information are at cassadaga.org. Readings are booked with individual certified mediums; tours of the camp are offered through the camp office.

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