You can visit the Camden Battlefield today!

The Camden Battlefield is the site of the Battle of Camden. The battlefield sprawls over an area estimated to be 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) about 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Camden, South Carolina, bounded on the north by Lake Shamokin, and extending south. Flat Rock Rd passes roughly through the center of the battlefield, and United States Route 521 marks its eastern boundary. Approximately 479 acres of the core of the battlefield are now owned by the Palmetto Conservation Foundation. The original five acres were owned by the Hobkirk Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution who gave their portion over to the current owners. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961, and placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

The Camden battlefield is under significant threat from destructive large-scale commercial timbering which has been going on for several years in the area. Despite undergoing preservation in private-public partnerships, especially under the hand of the Palmetto Conservation Foundation, the historic site once was the battlefield is also still under pressure from encroaching residential development. Camden, South Carolina area is fast becoming a bedroom community for Columbia, the state capital, just 30 miles away. You can visit this historic site today to see what is left with times of an area that used to be a battlefield of the battle of Camden.