24/7 Trauma and Biohazard Cleanup in Cameron, NC

Cameron is a small town in eastern Moore County, North Carolina, in the Sandhills, with a well-preserved turn-of-the-century character.

Cameron was planned in 1875 and incorporated in 1876, and it is named for railroad official Paul Cameron.

The town grew up around the Fayetteville and Western Plank Road and then became the end of the line for the Raleigh and Augusta Railroad.

Cameron's early entrepreneurs built turpentine distilleries from the surrounding longleaf pines and opened stores and hotels to serve the railroad's customers.

The introduction of the Lucretia dewberry to Moore County in 1892 made Cameron the 'Dewberry Capital of the World.'

From 1910 to 1920, Cameron shipped between 60,000 and 90,000 crates of dewberries per season in refrigerated boxcars to markets across the United States.

In the 1880s, Cameron's Muse Brothers Store was known as the largest department store between Richmond, Virginia, and Augusta, Georgia.

By the 1950s the dewberry and turpentine industries had died out and the trains no longer stopped, leaving Cameron a quiet residential town.

Today antiques are Cameron's biggest draw, and its Cameron Antique Street Fair, held on the first Saturdays of May and October, draws thousands of collectors and visitors.

The Cameron Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, protects the Victorian-era homes, churches and commercial buildings along Carthage Street.