Historic Camden: Part 2, Nineteenth Century: Century

By: Thomas Kirkland and Robrt Kennedy, Pub. 1926, reprinted 2026, 518 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-027-5. Camden is the oldest inland city in the state of South Carolina. It was the main inland trade center for the colony of South Carolina. Due to geography and inland road, Camden was one of the main routes to the upcountry/back country for settlers looking west for new lands. This volume Picks up from Volume #1. It covers the history of Camden from the War of 1812 until publication of the book with topics on military rosters & history, schools, commerce, Churches, Civil War reconstruction and etc. The author has included a section biographical sketches on early families with the following surnames: Anderson, Blair, Brown, Capers, Ciples, Clarke, Clyburn, Collins, Cunningham, Cureton, Davis, Deas, DeLeon, DePass, DeSaussure, Doby, Douglas, Eccles, Ellerbe, Hay, Johnson, Jordan, Kennedy, Kilgore, Kirkland, Lee, Leitner, Levy, Lucas, McCaa, McCandless, McCreight, McDowell, McKain, McWillie, Matheson, Moore, Nixon, Patterson, Reynolds, Rugeley, Sanders, Shannon, Thompson, Villepigue, West, Withers, Witherspoon, Workman, Young, and Zemp

Pagina's: 520, Paperback, Southern Historical Press, Inc.