Category: Government
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Camden Catholic High School
Broadway and Federal Street, Camden, NJ The first Camden Catholic High School was built in Camden in 1896, and was known as the Lyceum. A new school was contracted for in 1923, and the cornerstone was laid at North 7th and Federal Streets in October 18, 1923. The school, which included the former Lyceum and…
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Carnegie Library (AKA the Camden Free Public Library)
616 Broadway Northeast Corner of Broadway and Line Street The Library Committee of City Council, on February 24th, adopted a resolution presented by Councilman Charles H. Ellis, formally accepting Andrew Carnegie’s offer of $100,000 for a public library in Camden. On April 28, 1903 the Free Library Trustees recommended the purchase of the Dialogue property,…
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Electrical Bureau, Camden NJ
My father worked for the Electrical Bureau in Camden for 30 years, from approximately 1973 (I think) to when he retired in 2004. He has since passed and I have been maintaining his website on his behalf, until which time it makes sense not to. Here are a gallery of his photos which he has…
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Twelfth Ward Republican Club
The Twelfth Ward Republican Club, aka East End Republican Club, has a long and interesting history. Prior to the 1899 merger with Camden, NJ, the town of Stockton, which comprised of what is now known as Cramer Hill and East Camden, had a very active political scene. After the merger, Cramer Hill became Camden’s Eleventh…
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City Incinerator
1451 Federal Street Located on Federal Street west of the Cooper River, this now unused edifice is passed by thousands of cars daily as they make their way over the drawbridge from East Camden into the center of Camden. The municipal trash incinerator was built river in the late 1920s or early 1930s, and maintained…
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Civilian Conservation Corps (C.C.C.)
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program for unemployed men, focused on natural resource conservation from 1933 to 1942. As part of the New Deal legislation proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Civilian Conservation Corps was designed first, to aid relief of unemployment stemming from the Great Depression and…
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Sixth Ward Republican Club
The SIXTH WARD REPUBLICAN CLUB was active in Camden as early as the 1890s through at least 1947. Richard J. Richardson was the club president for several years around the turn of the century. Camden Fire Department Captain William Deno was another long-time member. As early as February of 1899 the club’s headquarters was at…
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Linden School
429 N. 10th Street Northeast corner of N. 10th Street & Linden Street In December of 1887 the Camden Board of Education approved the purchase of land on the east side of Tenth Street at Linden Street “at thirty-five cents per foot” for the purpose of constructing a new school for colored children. Work on…
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Camden County Municipalities, 1964
Camden Courier-Post, May 19, 1964 MUNICIPALITIES DATE OF INCORPORATION ORIGINALLY PART OF Audubon Borough 1905 Haddon and Newton Audubon Park Borough 1947 Audubon Barrington Borough 1917 Centre, Union and Gloucester Twp Bellmawr Borough 1926 Centre, Union and Gloucester Twp Berlin Borough 1927 Berlin Twp. and Waterford Berlin Township 1910 Waterford Brooklawn Borough 1924 Centre, Union,…
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Camden Commercial College
The CAMDEN COMMERCIAL COLLEGE INC., a privately owned and operated business college, had opened its doors in the Temple Theater building at 415 Market Street by 1906. George O. Swartz, of Wenonah, was then the school’s president, with Joel O. Swartz of Devon PA serving as the secretary and treasurer of the corporation. By 1911…
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Trash Fire at Davis and Copewood Streets
December 24, 2013 This page and the other pages in this series are the successors to the series of web-page about the Camden Fire Department. On this and other pages in the series you will find pictures and information regarding different events and aspects of the fire service in Camden, New Jersey. Once again, the…
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A Marine Comes Home From Afghanistan
December 20, 2013 This page and the other pages in this series are the successors to the series of web-page about the Camden Fire Department. On this and other pages in the series you will find pictures and information regarding different events and aspects of the fire service in Camden, New Jersey. All things considered,…