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The frame farmhouse located at 25 Fairway Heights Drive is located on a portion of Markham Township Lot 3, Concession 2. This property originally consisted of a 200 acre lot that ran between Bayview Avenue to the Leslie Street Road allowance. It was leased from the Crown by John Cameron beginning in 1812, John Cameron was the owner of a grist mill on the Don River, which he sold in that year to John Lyons. This mill, located on Lot 32, Concession 1, Vaughn Township, was built by Jeremiah Atkinson in 1801.
The Cameron House is a one and a half storey frame building with a simple rectangular plan. There is a 20th century porch centered on the east (front) wall. The building rests close to grade level on a fieldstone foundation that provides a full basement.
The John Cameron Jr. House and the German Mills Schoolhouse are the only 19th century structures surviving to serve as reminders of old German Mills. The Cameron House, as the last historic residence, overlooks a former mill site and the Town of Markham's Settler's Park.
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