Camden is an unincorporated community in Polk County that can be found in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Texas. It was established in 1898 as a company town when W. T. Carter and Brother Lumber Company relocated their plant from the nearby community of Barnum as it was burned a year earlier. According to one legend, Camden was named by Carter’s wife. However, historians affirmed that surveyor T. H. Woodson named the community after the city of Camden in New Jersey, where he was born. Although the settlement suffered from two catastrophic fires, Camden managed to stay and rebuilt some of its businesses. The railroad, sawmill, timber, and oil industries remained to be the company town’s economic mainstays. As of 2000, it has an estimated population of 1,200.
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