In 1817, Revolutionary War veteran and Camden co-founder James Moore Sr. and his wife, Mary, deeded a plot to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church to erect a place of worship. Although a church was not built until 1825, the earliest burial stone recovered on the plot was that of five-year-old Simon P. Zimmerman, dated 1818. Many people later buried there were victims of the cholera epidemic of 1849. In 1852, Felix and Rachel Marsh sold an adjacent one-acre plot to the Methodist Episcopal Church trustees for a graveyard, and the expanded cemetery became known as Orchard Hill Cemetery because of nearby fruit orchards. Prominent citizens of early Camden, as well as veterans of American conflicts from the Revolution through the Civil War, were buried there. A new cemetery was established north of the village in 1873, and some graves were relocated there. After the last known burial, that of Charlotte Cornwell in March 1880, the old cemetery was abandoned and soon became neglected and overgrown. By 2006, several Camden residents began restoring it with private donations and local volunteer labor. Research identified as many of the interred as possible, and 117 tombstones bearing the names of 144 individuals were restored and reset, though many others were not found or could not be saved. Today, the surviving markers honor Camden's original citizens, military veterans, and the volunteers who restored their resting place.