Twenty-First Street begins in what was originally called the Pavonia section of what is now considered Cramer Hill and ends in East Camden at Federal Street. The street had already been laid out by the time the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory was published. The street begins at Harrison Avenue and runs south, across River Road to the Pavonia railroad switching yard, then from Howell Street to Federal Street.
Cramer Hill and East Camden, 1914Looking West from over North 24th Street and Howell Street — July 1965
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1200 Block of North 21st Street
City directory records, 1924–1956.
1241 North 21st Street
1241 North 21st Street — 1200 Block of North 21st Street
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1924
No listing in directory
1931
John L.B. May & Family (John L.B. & Fannie L. May, John Leroy May, Florence May)
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Herman Enten's Grocery, 101 North 21st Street
Nathan Enten — Camden High School Purple & Gold Yearbook, 1930
Herman F. Niessner — 36 North 21st Street — 1900s–1910s
Herman F. Niessner lived at 36 North 21st Street in the 1900s and 1910s.
King's Moving Service, 30 North 21st Street
30 North 21st Street — October 31, 1938King's Moving Service advertisement — 1955 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages
King's Moving Service — Local & Long Distance Moving — Low Rates to Seashore — All Work Under Personal Supervision of Mr. King — WOodlawn 3-8597 — Call Day or Nite. (1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages.)
William Pedder was lodging at 27 North 21st Street as early as 1905. He stayed on after William Cooper's suicide and married Louise Cooper shortly after the compilation of the city directory. He appears to have died in the late 1920s; Louise Cooper Pedder died in 1941.
Looking North on North 21st Street from Federal Street — February 25, 2009
Harry Mailahn (1926–1971) was a Camden firefighter assigned to Engine Company 9 from his appointment in January 1951 until his death in 1971. A Navy veteran of World War II, he lived at 2924 Royden Street in East Camden.
John H. Vickers (1863–1939) served with the Camden Fire Department from 1904, rising to Captain of Engine Company 9 in 1924, and lived with his family at 202 North 27th Street from 1920.
Brown Street in Camden's Fourteenth Ward was one of two streets that carried that name. Shown on a 1914 map running east from Master Street to Newton Creek, south of Olive Street, it has no listed addresses in the 1924 Directory and does not appear on the 1946 map.
Allen Palmer was born on April 20, 1891, in the Ellisburg section of Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill), New Jersey, to John and Ida Palmer. By 1900, the family had moved to 26 North 21st Street in East Camden.
Herman F. Niessner was born on March 8, 1891, in Pennsylvania to German immigrant parents. His father, Frederick Niessner, worked as a machinist for Baldwin Locomotive in Philadelphia and moved the family to the Cramer Hill section of Camden in 1894.
Brown Street in Camden's Fourteenth Ward was listed in the 1906 and 1924 directories but may never have been fully laid out; satellite images suggest it would have run through the Canterbury Apartments tract.
Bertha Reed, 18, of 928 North 21st Street carried three-year-old Michael Moran to safety when fire broke out at 1145 DuPont Street in Cramer Hill; Engines 9 and 11 and Truck 3 responded.
Funeral for Mrs. Fannie L. May of 1223 North 21st Street was delayed because her husband John was hospitalized from injuries in the automobile-train collision that killed her.
Mrs. Fannie May, 72, of 1223 North 21st Street was critically injured when her car skidded into a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at River Avenue and Federal Street; she died that afternoon.
Obituary of Mrs. Mary J. Carr, 63, of 128 North Twenty-first Street, mother of Motorcycle Patrolman Thomas J. Carr, who was employed at Howland Croft Sons & Co.
Obituary of Mrs. Mary D. McMillan, 80, of 105 North Twenty-first Street, who died at Lakeland Hospital after two years of illness; requiem Mass celebrated at St. Joseph's R.C. Church.
Obituary notice for Joseph Steer, 66, of 1241 North Twenty-first Street; requiem Mass was rescheduled to 9 a.m. in St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church.
George W. Spicks, 85, who retired as a Camden hotel keeper in 1923, died at his home, 52 South Twenty-eighth Street. He had owned a hotel at Twenty-first and Federal Streets for 40 years. Survived by two daughters and one granddaughter.
An open-air meeting of the Cramer Hill Businessmen's Association at Veterans Park praised local business, with Mayor Frederick von Nieda among the speakers; prizes were awarded including a vacuum cleaner to George Blanck of 1026 North Twenty-first Street.
Demand that Dr. Arthur L. Stone be retained as Camden city director of emergency relief was made by Walter S. Agin , president of the Pyne Poynt Garden Club, at a meeting of the Cox Garden Club at Twenty-first Street and Harrison Avenue .
George Brown, 62, of 1013 North Twenty-first Street was hospitalized at Cooper Hospital with a dislocated shoulder and head lacerations after falling from a roof at Twenty-first and River Avenue.
A 1926 retrospective recalling William Cooper's 1906 laudanum suicide in Cole's barroom on Federal Street — 20 years after he sat dead in a chair for six hours while a pinochle game continued around him.
The family of Richard Cox at 117 North Twenty-first Street was roused at 5 a.m. by smoke from a chimney fire; the roof briefly caught flame but damage was limited to $50.
Obituary of Sarah A. R. Cox, wife of Richard D. Cox, who died October 26, 1921, at age 34; services at 117 North Twenty-first Street and burial at Bethel Cemetery.
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
William Cooper of 27 North Twenty-first Street died of laudanum poisoning at Cooper Hospital; police sought the writer of a mysterious note found in his pocket after he sat unnoticed for hours in a Federal Street saloon.
