Category: Religion
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First Methodist Episcopal Church
301 South 6th Street Southwest corner of South 6th Street and Stevens Street The First Methodist Episcopal Church, established in 1809, transitioned to the name Third Street Methodist Episcopal Church in 1899 before relocating to a new building on June 5, 1893. Despite the name change, it was, in fact, the original Methodist Episcopal church…
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Ferry Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Presently Known as Ferry Avenue United Methodist Church 768 Ferry Avenue, Camden, NJ The Ferry Avenue Methodist Church makes its initial appearance in the Camden City Directories in 1890. A photograph dated 1888 suggests that the church might have commenced its operations in the latter part of that same year. This church, which initially served…
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Wiley Methodist Episcopal Church
625 S. 3rd Street, Camden, NJ Some of this page is derived from The Centennial History of Camden Methodism, published in 1909. In the year 1884 a mission, located on Pine street near Locust, Which, had been under the care of Fifth Street M.E. Church for some time, not proving very successful was transferred to…
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Memorial Methodist Protestant Church
313 Liberty Street, Camden, NJ The following is derived from George Reeser Prowell’s History of Camden County, New Jersey published in 1886. Memorial Methodist Protestant Church is situated on Liberty Street, above Third. Religious services of this denomination were first held weekly in Camden, in 1865, at the house of Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Salinda…
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Religious History of Camden
From George Reeser Prowell’s History of Camden County, New Jersey, 1886 Newton Friend’s Meeting About the year 1800, when the general opening of roads made it no longer important to be on the water, Newton Friends determined to move from their old meeting-house on Newton Creek to a place more central; and in Fourth Month,…