Plans for new Camden-Kershaw County Visitors Center unveiled

Mel Pearson (left) points out an open-air market on a model of the future Camden-Kershaw County Visitors Center to some of the people assembled for the center’s official announcement on Friday, including State Rep. Laurie Slade Funderburk, standing next to him. - photo by Martin L. Cahn/C-I

Visitors Center - Pearson (Web).jpg — Mel Pearson (left) points out an open-air market on a model of the future Camden-Kershaw County Visitors Center to some of the people assembled for the center’s official announcement on Friday, including State Rep. Laurie Slade Funderburk, standing next to him. - photo by Martin L. Cahn/C-I

Updated: Feb. 26, 2019, 1 a.m.

A large group of people gathered in the cold under cloudy skies around 10 a.m. Friday to hear an announcement nearly a generation in the making: the city of Camden and Central Carolina Technical College (CCTC) -- in collaboration with Kershaw County, Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site, the state of South Carolina, S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism (SCPRT), and U.S. National Park Service -- will build a new Camden-Kershaw County Visitors Center on property deeded to the city by Historic Camden in September 2018.

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