Camden, Ohio

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Camden
Camden, Ohio
Camden
Camden
Location in Ohio
Basic data
State : United States
State : Ohio
County : Preble County
Coordinates : 39 ° 38 ′  N , 84 ° 39 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 38 ′  N , 84 ° 39 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 2,046 (as of 2010)
Population density : 637.4 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 3.24 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of
which 3.21 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 255 m
FIPS : 39-11024
GNIS ID : 1056756

Camden is a village in Preble County in the US state of Ohio . According to the 2010 census, the population was 2046.

Camden, Town Hall

Camden was created in 1818 under the name Dover by William Moore, then it was named in Newcomb after Senator George Newcomb . Incorporated in 1832, the village finally got its name from Camden, South Carolina .

The narrator Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden in 1876 when the town had little more than 700 residents.

In 1880, EM Kennedy founded a local newspaper, the Camden Gazette , a Thursday weekly. The newspaper was the only newspaper in the county. However, it was published by CM Hane in 1884. Founded in 1902 by WE McChristie, Preble County News was published from 1906 by Ray R. Simpson, but after it was sold to Earl H. Irvin, the paper moved to Eaton in the same year .

In 1958 Ruth Bandtel Neff (1908–1998) completed her master's thesis on the history of the place; she herself worked as a primary school teacher in Camden until 1969.

literature

  • Ruth Bandtel Neff: History of Camden, Ohio , thesis, University of Miami , 1955 ( table of contents ).
  • Robert Eaton Lowry: History of Preble County, Ohio. Her People, Industries and Institutions , BF Bowen, 1915.

Web links

Commons : Camden, Ohio  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Remarks

  1. ^ William D. Overman: Ohio Town Names , Akron 1958, p. 22 (after HZ Williams: History of Preble county , 1881, p. 307).
  2. ↑ Diane VanSkiver Gagel: Ohio Photographers. 1839-1900 , Carl Mautz Publishing, Nevada City 1998, p. 20; Robert Eaton Lowry: History of Preble County, Ohio. Her People, Industries and Institutions , BF Bowen, 1915, p. 206.
  3. ^ CA Cooke and Co.'s United States Newspaper Directory Revised, Containing Names of all the Newspapers and other Periodicals Published in America , 1881, p. 146.
  4. ↑ About Camden weekly gazette. (Camden, Ohio) 1880-1884. Camden, Ohio (1880-1884) , Library of Congress.
  5. ^ Robert Eaton Lowry: History of Preble County, Ohio. Her People, Industries and Institutions , BF Bowen, 1915, p. 444.