Fort Cameron was a United States Military installation, located east of Beaver, Utah,[1] and was active from 1872 to 1883.

[3] Located on the north side of the Beaver River, many of the buildings were constructed with a distinctive black rock sourced from the nearby mountains.

The new fort included four company barracks, a guardhouse, commissary, hospital, and officers’ quarters.

[2] It was originally established to protect settlers of central Utah from local American Indians and to keep an eye on possible Mormon rebellions.

[2] Cyrus M. Hawley, an associate justice of the Utah Territorial Supreme Court, believed the fort's establishment would lead to the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre case being brought to trial, as it would allow witnesses to testify under the protection of the US government.