CAMDEN CITY A post town of Ray county, Camden township, situated on the Missouri river, seven miles from Richmond, the county seat, 250 miles from St. Louis, and 125 from Jefferson City, was first settled about thirty years since. The post office has been established twenty years. The town contains one Masonic lodge, viz., Camden lodge, U. D., numbering fifteen members. One church occupied alternately by Baptists, Methodists and Reformers. There are two stage lines, one to Richmond and the other to Missouri City, 18 miles distant. The chief productions are hemp, tobacco, wheat, corn, and oats. Its timber, oak, walnut and cotton wood. Coal is found here in large quantities. Improved land may be bought from $10 to $30 per acre, and unimproved from $5 to $10. Population 450. Mayor, Willis Warriner. (Missouri State Gazetteer..., 1860)