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Camden is an unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States. Camden is located on U.S. routes 33 and 119 , 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west-northwest of Weston . Camden has a post office with ZIP code 26338.
Camden-on-Gauley is a town in Webster County, West Virginia, United States, along the Gauley River.The population was 126 at the 2020 census. [2]The town derives its name from Johnson N. Camden, a senator who was the proprietor of several businesses on the nearby Gauley River. [5]
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Camden Park was established as a picnic spot by the Camden Interstate Railway Company in 1903, and named after former West Virginia Senator Johnson N. Camden.As steamboat traffic gave way to intercity trolleys, the park was located near the mouth of Twelvepole Creek, where riders traveling between Huntington, Ceredo, Kenova, Ashland, and Coal Grove would stop to change lines.
The Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in the Appalachian Plateau region of the United States.Referred to locally as the "Tri-State area," and colloquially as "Kyova" (Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia), the region spans seven counties in the three states of Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. [5]
Braxton County Memorial Hospital (WVU) - Gassaway (Braxton County) Broaddus Hospital - Philippi (Barbour County) Cabell Huntington Hospital located in Huntington, West Virginia (2014) Cabell Huntington Hospital - Huntington (Cabell and Wayne counties) Camden Clark Medical Center - Parkersburg (Wood County)
Born in 1828 in Collins Settlement, the county seat of Lewis County, Virginia (now West Virginia), to Col. John Scrivener Camden (1798–1862) [2] and his wife, the former Nancy Newlon, Johnson Newlon Camden was the grandson of Rev. Henry Benjamin Camden, who freed his slaves in Maryland in 1804 and moved west to what became Harrison County, West Virginia during the American Civil War.
Huntington is the second-most populous city in West Virginia. The Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area, spanning seven counties across West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio, had an estimated population of 368,262 in 2023. Surrounded by extensive natural resources, the area was first settled in 1775 as Holderby's Landing.