CAMDEN, a village, capital of the Kershaw district in the state of South Carolina, North America, 33 miles N.E. of Columbia. It stands on the east bank of the Wateree river, by means of which flat-bottomed boats of 70 tons come up to the village. It contains a court-house, jail, academy, masonic-hall, market-house, library, arsenal, and about 1000 inhabitants. Two battles were fought here (1780-81) during the revolutionary war; and a fine marble monument has been erected to the memory of Baron de Kalb.