Cameron Wood History

Cameron Wood is named for Mr. Cameron Harris.

The Cameron Wood neighborhood is located on 386 acres of land that, in earlier years, was a hunting preserve owned by the Belk family.  The property was, at one time, considered as a possible location for a major shopping mall but was thought to be too far from the center of  Charlotte to be suitable.  Eventually, in an exchange of properties, the Harris family became the owners of the property and the Belk family took over the land that would one day become the site of SouthPark mall. 

The property contains a one-acre natural spring-fed pond.  Prior to the development of Cameron Wood, the pond was used to water horses and cattle. At one point, the state record for smallmouth bass was caught in this pond.

Mulvaney Homes bought the land from the Harris family, with the help of funding from UDC Homes, Inc., for approximately $10 million.  Eventually, UDC bought out Mulvaney Homes and took over the property.  The neighborhood covenants were filed, by UDC, on July 8, 1986, and the first house was completed that same year.  In 1996, the remaining homesites were sold by UDC to David Weekly Homes.  David Weekly completed their work in Cameron Wood in 2002.

The Cameron Wood community is composed of five different villages: Park Springs, Stone Croft, Wingfield, Glen Laurel, and Deer Brooke.  Cameron Wood was the largest planned community in Charlotte/Mecklenburg until the Highland Creek community was built in the northeastern part of the county.  The Glen Laurel village served as the site of Home Arama in 1988.

Cameron Wood is currently the site of nearly 805 homes.  Click here for a map of the area.

When the neighborhood was initially opened in 1986, only one entrance existed (the current "middle" entrance) and Park Road was only two-lanes wide.  The southern entrance (where Park Rd. and Johnston Rd. meet) was opened in 1988 and the northern entrance (across from South Mecklenburg High School) was opened in 1990.  Between 1989 and 1991, Park Road was widened from two lanes to the six-lane thoroughfare that we have today.

The community's homeowner's association is very active and highly respected throughout the area.  For social, safety and security and new resident welcoming purposes, the community is divided into 13 clusters.  Each cluster has a Neighborhood Watch representative and several clusters are very socially active. 

Neighborhood Development 2009 Schedule

Cameron Wood Homeowners Association
Post Office Box 471578
Charlotte, NC 28247-1578
Office: 704-442-5757
Fax: 704-543-0242 Homeowners Association - Cameron Wood Management 
Board of Directors - cwbod@cameronwood.com
Website Administrator - webmaster@cameronwood.com
Neighbor to Neighbor / Newsletter - newsletter@cameronwood.com
President of Homeowners Association - tom.kirby@meineke.com