Twenty-Third Street originates in the area initially known as the Pavonia section, now part of Cramer Hill, and concludes at Federal Street in East Camden. Its establishment predates the publication of the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory, indicating its existence by that time.
Starting originally at Harrison Avenue, the street runs south, crosses River Road to the Pavonia railroad switching yard, then resumes from Howell Street until it reaches Federal Street. The James G. Blaine School stood at the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Wayne Avenue.
1914 Sanborn map of Cramer Hill and East Camden1965 aerial view looking west from North 23rd Street and Howell Street1965 aerial view looking west from North 23rd Street and Howell Street — Supersized Image 11965 aerial view looking west from North 23rd Street and Howell Street — Supersized Image 2
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1100 Block of North 23rd Street
City directory records, 1924–1991.
1146 North 23rd Street
1146 North 23rd Street — 1100 Block of North 23rd Street
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1991
J&C Iron
1137 North 23rd Street
1137 North 23rd Street — 1100 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924
Hampton Smith, carpenter
1929
Vacant
1947
Arnold Lehner
1132 North 23rd Street
1132 North 23rd Street — 1100 Block of North 23rd Street
1107 North 23rd Street — 1100 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924–1947
Jacob H. Grosmick
1106 North 23rd Street
1106 North 23rd Street — 1100 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924–1929
Harry M. Lingg
1947
Edward J. Collopy, paperhanger
1105 North 23rd Street
1105 North 23rd Street — 1100 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924–1929
Fred A. Schoellkopf
1929
Charles H. Graber
1104 North 23rd Street
1104 North 23rd Street — 1100 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924–1929
George C. Edwards
1947
Lloyd L. Edwards
1103 North 23rd Street
1103 North 23rd Street — 1100 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924–1929
Karl W. Harteneck
1947
Charles Harteneck
1101 North 23rd Street
1101 North 23rd Street — 1100 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924
Alfred Johnson
1929
George S. Fulton
1947
Benjamin H. Somers
1146 North 23rd Street — J&C Iron, 1991Margaret Ward Shemeley, daughter of Robert G. Ward, 1132 North 23rd Street1026 North 23rd Street, photographed circa 1926. Residents included William H. Sasse (1924), Albert W. Loney (1929), and Calvin Austin (1947).Louis R. Mote, 1111 North 23rd Street, 1910s–1940s
1000 Block of North 23rd Street
City directory records, 1922–1969.
1047 North 23rd Street
1047 North 23rd Street — 1000 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924
No listing in directory
1929
K. Jaffe, confectionary
1045 North 23rd Street
1045 North 23rd Street — 1000 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924
No listing in directory
1929
William Swain
1035 North 23rd Street
1035 North 23rd Street — 1000 Block of North 23rd Street
1011 North 23rd Street — 1000 Block of North 23rd Street
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1929
William J. Robinson
1947
Herbert A. Bauck
1009 North 23rd Street
1009 North 23rd Street — 1000 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924–1947
Ralph E. Prickett
Southeast corner of Wayne Avenue and North 23rd Street — James G. Blaine School
At the intersection of River Road and North 23rd Street, the northeast corner held the Fairview Methodist Episcopal Church in 1924; by 1929 there was no listing.
900 Block of North 23rd Street
City directory records, 1924–1970s.
995 North 23rd Street
995 North 23rd Street — 900 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924
Peter Peterson
1929
Albert L. Downs
1947
John B. Oriol
993 North 23rd Street
993 North 23rd Street — 900 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924
Maurice A. Rubright, contractor
991 North 23rd Street
991 North 23rd Street — 900 Block of North 23rd Street
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1924
George E. Ash
1929
Merritt Holton
989 North 23rd Street
989 North 23rd Street — 900 Block of North 23rd Street
900 North 23rd Street — 900 Block of North 23rd Street
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1929
Charles J. Brennan
1947
Mrs. Blanche Parker
Staff Sergeant Frank J. Blair, 987 North 23rd StreetSgt. Bruce Fortin Smith, 983 North 23rd Street (1958–1962). Awarded the Bronze Star for service in Korea with the 24th Military Police Company, 24th Infantry Division. He arrived in Korea on July 4, 1950, only a few days after hostilities began. — Jay Smith, April 2011983 North 23rd Street neighborhood, 1958–1962
My father, Korean war vet Bruce Fortin Smith bought our first home at 983 North 23rd Street in 1958. It was a great neighborhood to grow up, always safe. We played ball from 'tele pole to tele pole' in the street. Our neighbors at 989, the Petre family and 981 the Hans family. The Stutzenbergs were across the street. We left in 1962. Lou's Grocery Store was on the corner of River and 23rd on our block. — Jay Smith, April 2011
Bruce Fortin Smith — photograph by Bruce Jay Smith, June 1996North 23rd Street looking south from Howell Street — February 25, 2009.
A 1955 photograph of this intersection, taken looking at Howell Street from North 23rd Street, was contributed by John "Jack" Griffith, formerly of 2216 Howell Street, who is himself the subject of the picture. The photograph was published on the original site but is no longer held in the archive; this record of it is all that survives.
108 North 23rd Street — 100 Block of North 23rd Street
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Walter L. Milby, plumber
1959
Harry Tracy
Private First Class William Groome, 119 North 23rd StreetSoutheast corner of High Street and North 23rd Street — Thomas H. Dudley Public School, 1904–2008Thomas H. Dudley Public School, February 1, 2004
Unit Block of North 23rd Street
City directory records, 1924–2000s.
47 North 23rd Street
47 North 23rd Street — Unit Block of North 23rd Street
21 North 23rd Street — 1950s photograph. Home of Francis A. Woodward (1929) and Mrs. Caroline S. Woodward (1947).Robert Hartmann & Family, 16 North 23rd Street, 1910s–1947104 North 23rd Street — photograph taken 2008
The James G. Blaine School was located at the south-east corner of North 23rd Street at Wayne Avenue in the Pavonia-Cramer Hill section of Camden. Built by Stockton Township, it joined Camden public schools in 1899 and was closed in 1932.
Technician Fourth Class Isaac Z. Gosling (1911–1942) was born in Camden to Boston and Elizabeth Gosling; the family had moved to 118 North 23rd Street by September 1918. Called to service in March 1941, he died of pneumonia in England on September 3, 1942 while serving with the 85th Quartermaster Depot Supply Company, and was buried at Beverly National Cemetery in 1949.
Private First Class William Groome (1916–1944), a former New York Shipbuilding Company employee who had lived for six years at 119 North 23rd Street in East Camden, served with Company K, 351st Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division. He was killed in action at Anzio, Italy on May 12, 1944 and was buried at Beverly National Cemetery in 1949.
John J. Toal (1902–1971) joined the Camden Police Department on May 8, 1928 and was still serving as late as 1947. He and his wife Mary lived at 1115 North 31st Street in Cramer Hill at the time of the 1930 Census, and had moved to 902 North 23rd Street by 1947.
Robert Hartmann (1876–1967), son of cigar manufacturer Frank J. Hartmann Sr., grew up in Camden's labor movement and was elected the first president of the Camden County Central Labor Union when it was formed in 1908. The 1920 Census found him and his family at 16 North 23rd Street in East Camden.
Louis Rodger Mote (1884–1939) owned a home at 1111 North 23rd Street in Cramer Hill and worked at one of Camden's shipyards before serving as Assistant Superintendent of Streets for the City of Camden under Mayor Winfield S. Price. He and his wife Louise were active in 11th Ward Republican politics.
Staff Sergeant Frank J. Blair (1921–1944) of 987 North 23rd Street in Cramer Hill was a June 1940 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School who served as a B-24 crewman with the 374th Bomber Squadron, 308th Bomber Group, based at Kunming, China. He was killed in action on July 13, 1944, and is listed on the Tablets of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
Henry Joseph "Beanie" Keating Sr. (1920–2002) was a Camden firefighter who joined the Camden Fire Department on December 1, 1953, transferring from the police department, and served with distinction for over twenty-five years before retiring January 1, 1979.
Charles Hobart Corson, commonly known as Hobart Corson , was born in Camden, New Jersey, on July 23, 1902, to W. Penn Corson and his wife, the former Catherine Kronenwetter.
Camden Courier-Post - May 16, 1964 C. Hobart Corson , 62, of 117 N. 23rd st. , former president of the Ninth Ward Republican Club , was found dead yesterday on the second floor of the club's headquarters on Broadway near Royden st .
Obituary of Samuel B. Harring, 64, of 973 North 23rd Street, a lifelong Camden resident and RCA truck driver; burial at Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro.
Services for Pfc. William Groome, killed in action at Anzio, Italy on May 12, 1944, were held at National Cemetery, Beverly, with military rites conducted by a squad from Ft. Dix. He had resided in Camden for six years at 119 North Twenty-third Street.
Death notice for Mrs. Mildred Birkby of 16 North Twenty-third Street; services at the residence, survived by her parents Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartman and brother Robert J. Hartmann.
A runaway bakery horse at Admiral Wilson Boulevard and Baird Avenue triggered a chain-reaction crash injuring three people; Harold B. Ash, 20, of 982 North Twenty-third Street was among those treated at Cooper Hospital.
Fire damaged homes at 125 and 127 North Twenty-third Street; Junior Captain Howard Gick suffered a nail through the foot and Fireman Edward Peira was wounded in the hand.
Sixteen motorists were arrested by State Police of the Berlin barracks for motor vehicle violations; among them was Frank Blair of 987 North Twenty-third Street, fined $2.50 for careless driving.
John W. Yates returned home to find a small tin box in an upstairs bureau had been forced open; the $20 inside was untouched, but a revolver was missing.
Advertisement for Camden Plating Co. at 15 North 23rd Street — South Jersey's only fully equipped plating plant, offering nickel, copper, cadmium, zinc, chromium, and barrel plating.
Edward J. Staepel, 19, of 1033 North Twenty-third Street made a 3,000-mile trip from a C.C.C. Camp in Washington State to reach Cooper Hospital, where his mother lay near death from a fractured skull.
“Peggy,” a poodle owned by Camden city librarian William H. Ketler of 247 South 33rd Street, was one of three New Jersey dogs honored in New York on October 31, 1933 for rousing her deaf master when she detected escaping gas.
James C. Peacock, Jr., son of J. Charles Peacock of 116 North Twenty-third Street, wed Miss Beulah Rebecca Mead at the First Presbyterian Church, with a reception and New England honeymoon trip to follow.
Five candidates passed the Camden Park guard civil service test; Charles D. Phillips of 121 North Twenty-third Street finished first with a score of 77.13.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rodgers of 131 North Twenty-third Street celebrated their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary with a large gathering of relatives and friends. The same column reports that St. Andrew's P. E. Mission was conducting a carnival at Reservoir Park to raise funds for a new house of worship.
Collision Occurs as Machine Speeds to Home of Man Who Attempted Suicide Three Camden policemen were injured, one of them seriously, last night, when the First district auto ambulance was struck by a trolley car while responding to a call from 2310 Carman street , where Bodine Stratton, 39 years old, had shot himself over the heart.
John W. Derr, 42, of 139 North Twenty-third Street died at Cooper Hospital after being caught in a shafting at a manufacturing plant at Twenty-seventh and Pleasant Streets.
Death notice for Theresa A. Sorden, 49, widow of John H. Sorden, who died suddenly June 20, 1910; services at 137 North 23rd Street, Camden, burial at Medford, NJ.
Policeman Howard Smith killed a rabid dog in the cellar of a house at 125 North Twenty-third Street — the second mad dog he had killed on that street within a week.
