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Colonial District

         Camden - founded after Carolina was
           separated into north and south.

Once a scattering of Native American villages
along the “river Watery,” Camden came into
being through Colonial Governor Robert Johnson’s
“scheem for settling townships” in the Carolina
backcountry wilderness.
Touring here will whet your appetite for deeper
exploration into the stories of this historic settlement
and the English, Irish, Scottish, Quaker, Jewish, African
Americans and others who came to call Camden home.
Here, surveyors laid out the pine-stump village called
Pine Tree Hill along the old Catawba Trading Path
(Broad Street).
An iconic focal point of this district is the reconstructed
Kershaw-Cornwallis House, the centerpiece of Historic
Camden Foundation’s 107-acre historic site.
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