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from Discover Camden/Kershaw County, SC

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Visitors from all over the world and area residents as well love to explore the charming, historic and especially walkable city of Camden. Now everyone -- near and far -- can experience their own self-guided walking tour of each of the city’s 9 historic touring districts.

By simply downloading the free CAMDEN TOUR application to a smartphone, real and “virtual” tourists can stroll and learn at their leisure the wonderful stories of more than 100 historic sites around town.

Along with visuals and audio narration by the Curator of the Camden Archives & Museum, the application includes a map of each of the touring districts, and corresponds with the Camden: Classically Carolina Area Map brochure available at visitor locations throughout the city.

Created by the Camden Archives & Museum and Camden Tourism Development staff, the CAMDEN TOUR application synthesizes the information in the historic records and files at the Camden Archives & Museum, the Kershaw County Historical Society’s A Guide to Historic Sites in Camden, South Carolina, the National Register of Historic Places, Henry D. Boykin and Mrs. Thomas (Hope) Cooper’s title searches of more than 60 historic sites in Camden, and the 1996 survey conducted by South Carolina’s State Historic Preservation Office.

In addition to the CAMDEN TOUR application, web-based audio tours of four districts can be accessed via www. classicallycarolina.com/audiotours