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WELCOME TO CAMERON STATION

Cameron Station is a community of single-family homes, townhomes, and condominiums located in the West End of Alexandria, Virginia. The award-winning designs were built according to the architectural styles of the 18th and 19th centuries and as a re-creation of an old-fashioned American small town. Brick sidewalks, colonial street lamps, pocket parks, and other unique environmental elements add to the community’s charm and unique ambiance.

The Cameron Club is a focal part of the community and includes a gathering room with kitchen for social and business gatherings, meeting rooms, a fitness center and gym, outdoor adult and children’s pools, and administrative offices. Retailers along Brenman Park Drive include a coffee house, restaurant, market, dry cleaners, spa and salon, dentist, and daycare facility. One of Alexandria’s grade schools, Samuel W. Tucker Elementary, is located at the west end of the community, and Cameron Station is bordered by two city parks at each end—Ben Brenman Park and Armistead L. Boothe Park—both of which contain athletic fields and playgrounds. Also bordering the community are several dog parks, picnic areas, and bike paths. Alexandria’s central library, Charles E. Beatley Jr. Library, is directly across the street. A free shuttle bus transports residents to the nearby Van Dorn Metro station during morning and evening rush hours.

The Cameron Station Community Association office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.

For questions or information, please contact General Manager, Steve Philbin, at sphilbin@gocampmgmt.com or the Assistant General Manager, Angel Robles at arobles@gocampmgmt.com, also you can reach them both at managers@cameronstation.org , or the (Currently Hiring) Covenants Administrator, covenants@cameronstation.org, or the Administrative Assistant Juana Michel at jmichel@gocampmgmt.com or admin@cameronstation.org .

You may also contact the office directly at (703) 567-4881 for more information.

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The History of Cameron Station

Long-time Cameron Station residents remember the first phase of homes being built in 1999 on the 164-acre site of the former U.S. Army post, Cameron Station. Since then, five phases of approximately 2,000 homes were built to form our Cameron Station community. Bordered by City of Alexandria parks, with street signs honoring its military past, Cameron Station retains a family-oriented environment with neighbors helping neighbors.

Reprinted from the Alexandria Times, provided by the Office of Alexandria:

In September 1941, the War Department announced plans to build an Army quartermaster depot along the Southern Railway tracks near Cameron Run. At the time, the 164-acre site was located outside Alexandria's city limits in a largely rural area along Duke Street. Another location north of Alexandria and closer to Washington had been considered, but the site along the tracks was ultimately selected for the Pentagon.

Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell oversaw construction of the quartermaster depot and other military facilities being built in support of the nation's defense. The quartermaster depot opened in 1942 as part of the Military District of Washington, providing supply, administrative and vehicle maintenance support, and staffed by military personnel and civilians.

After World War II, the quartermaster depot, became known as Cameron Station. During the Korean War, Cameron Station served as the War Dog Receiving and Holding Station where dogs were processed and prepared for training before being shipped to Fort Carson, Colorado. Cameron Station later became headquarters of the Defense Logistics Agency and the Army Institute of Heraldry.
In 1988 the Base Realignment and Closure Commission selected Cameron Station for closure, citing the inadequacies of warehouses converted to offices and facilities with a variety of security, maintenance, electrical, health and safety problems.

Cameron Station's mission ended in September 1995. The majority of the property was sold for commercial development and the City of Alexandria received more than 60 acres for use as park land. The new development kept the name Cameron Station and many of the new street names honored people associated with the former quartermaster depot, although the street named for General Somervell has an extra e at the end.

Source: http://alextimes.com/2011/03/out-of-the-attic-cameron-station-from/