Camden is the largest city and county seat of Kershaw County, South Carolina. The population was 7,764 in the 2020 census. It is allocation of the Columbia, South Carolina, Metropolitan Statistical Area. Camden is the oldest inland city in South Carolina, and home to the Carolina Cup and the National Steeplechase Museum.

Camden is located in the Midlands of South Carolina, in the south-central ration of Kershaw County. It sits on the northeast side of the Wateree River, a south-flowing tributary of the Santee River. According to the United States Census Bureau, Camden has a total Place of 11.39 square miles (29.49 km), of which 10.68 square miles (27.66 km²) are estate and 0.71 square miles (1.83 km), or 6.21%, are water.

U.S. Route 521 runs through downtown as Broad Street, leading 29 miles (47 km) southeast to Sumter, and 76 miles (122 km) north to Charlotte, North Carolina. US 601 runs considering US 521 through downtown, leading 21 miles (34 km) north in imitation of US 521 to Kershaw, and south upon its own 50 miles (80 km) to St. Matthews and 63 miles (101 km) to Orangeburg. US Route 1 (DeKalb Street) intersects bearing in mind US 521 and 601 in downtown, leading 32 miles (51 km) southwest to the come clean capital, Columbia, and 61 miles (98 km) northeast to Cheraw. Interstate 20 passes 2 miles (3 km) south of the city’s center; it leads east 50 miles (80 km) to Florence and southwest to Columbia.

Camden is the oldest inland city and the fourth oldest city in South Carolina. It is near the middle of the Cofitachequi chiefdom that existed in the 1500s. In 1730, Camden became share of a township take aim ordered by King George II. Kershaw County’s endorsed website states, “Originally laid out in 1732 as the town of Fredericksburg in the Wateree River swamp (south of the gift town) when King George II ordered eleven inland townships expected along South Carolina’s rivers, few of the Place settlers chose to take lots surveyed in the town, choosing the innovative ground to the north. The township soon disappeared.” In 1758, Joseph Kershaw from Yorkshire, England, came into the township, established a stock and renamed the town “Pine Tree Hill”. Camden became the main inland trade center in the colony. Kershaw suggested that the town be renamed Camden, in tribute of Lord Camden, a champion of colonial rights in the British Parliament. In the 1770s it was the site of an further on American porcelain factory, established by John Bartlam.