Editing Cameron, West Virginia (section)

==History and culture==
The town has the name of Samuel Cameron, a railroad worker.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=177|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=149|access-date=March 27, 2016|archive-date=November 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110175039/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/imgsrv/html?id=mdp.39015009099824&seq=180|url-status=live}}</ref>

Cameron's historical beach-style swimming pool, known as [[Cameron City Pool-PWA Project 1196]], is one of a few in the entire nation.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2009a}}</ref> Cameron was a [[Socialist Party of America]] stronghold in the early 1900s.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Nyden|first1=Paul J.|title=Labor historian to speak about W.Va. Socialist Party|url=http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201301060031|access-date=December 19, 2014|work=Charleston Gazette|date=January 6, 2013|archive-date=December 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219103912/http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201301060031|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Cameron Downtown]] is a national [[Historic district (United States)|historic district]] listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1998.<ref name="nris"/> The [[Spencer Cemetery]] was added in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/listings/20121221.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2012-12-21|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/10/12 through 12/14/12|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=2014-02-19|archive-date=2016-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160709190834/https://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20121221.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>