Sonoma Creek flows down the valley to the bay. The area includes the incorporated city of Sonoma and part of the City of Santa Rosa, as well as numerous unincorporated communities, including Kenwood and Glen Ellen near Santa Rosa and, near Sonoma, El Verano, Boyes Hot Springs, Fetters Hot Springs, and Agua Caliente.
These camp meetings quickly became a popular and important feature of the Second Great Awakening. Charles Grandison Finney Other than the creator of the camp meeting, one of the prominent leaders of this movement was the preacher Charles Grandison Finney. Finney, a lawyer turned preacher, was undoubtedly the most influential leader of the awakening. He was an incredibly eloquent speaker as well as a skilled writer, likely due to his years as an attorney. Finney was also a leader for allowing women to lead prayer, while also being a strong supporter of abolition.
The Second Great Awakening (1800â1840s) was a major religious movement in the U.S. that reached out to the unchurched and brought large numbers of people to a vivid experience of Christianity, fueling the rapid growth of numerous denominations, especially the Methodists, Baptists, and Disciples.he adolescence of poet Emily Dickinson was marked by the intense religious revivals that made Amherst College and her family's church, The First Congregational Church of Amherst, a major locus of influence in 1845-46 and in 1850, during the second phase of what is now called the Second Great Awakening.