8th Street
Over the years, Eighth Street has undergone significant expansion, extending its original length from Morgan Boulevard to Pyne Point in North Camden, with a few major interruptions.
During World War II in the early 1940s, the Chelton Terrace public housing project was constructed on the 2100 block of South Eighth Street, between Chelton Avenue and the adjacent railroad tracks along Bulson Street, east from Broadway. These homes, managed by the Housing Authority of the City of Camden, underwent demolition and subsequent reconstruction in the 2000s.
In the early 1950s, properties along Eighth Street, spanning from Van Hook Street to Ferry Avenue, were demolished to make room for the Roosevelt Manor public housing project, also owned and operated by the Housing Authority of the City of Camden. Roosevelt Manor was demolished in late 2004 and 2005, with new construction completing by the spring of 2010.
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John C. Voll Jr.
John C. Voll Jr. (1900-1979) was born in Camden and served the Camden Fire Department for 40 years, entering the department on January 15, 1925 and retiring on December 1, 1965. He lived his later years at 2737 Garfield Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden.
Joseph X. Voll
Joseph Xavier Voll (1925–1945) of Camden, NJ served as a Fireman First Class in the United States Navy and was one of the original crew of the USS Caswell (AKA-72). He was killed in an accident at Riverton, New Jersey on January 12, 1945, less than a week short of his 20th birthday, and is buried at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly, NJ.
11th Street
Eleventh Street ran north from Market Street through to Pearl Street. Over time, North 11th Street was erased block by block, until only a short segment between Penn and Linden Streets survives. South 11th Street is a connecting road with no residential addresses.
Edward Schlorer
Edward Schlorer was born in Baden, Germany, in 1860. He came to Camden in 1889 to join his younger brother, Adam Schlorer , who had established a meat business at Second and Arch Streets .
Olive Street
Morgan Village one-block street.
Josiah Sage
Josiah Sage was born in New Jersey in May 1862, according to the 1900 U.S. Census. His older sister, Hannah, married Charles Henry Peters in the late 1860s. By 1880, Sage was single and working as an oil cloth painter.
Abraham Lincoln James
Abraham Lincoln James, commonly known as A. L. James or A. Lincoln James, was a career officer with the Camden Police Department, serving for 40 years.
Canterbury Circle
Canterbury Circle runs south into the Canterbury Apartments from Olive Street, between South 8th Street and Morgan Boulevard, in the Morgan Village section of Camden.
Douglass Street
Douglass Street is a narrow, one-block thoroughfare in South Camden running south from Spruce Street to Cherry Street, between South 7th and South 8th Streets. Originally known as Lincoln Avenue, it was renamed after the 1899 annexation of the Town of Stockton.
Carpenter Street
Carpenter Street was a narrow residential street in North Camden, running from North 8th Street to Cooper Street. Most of it was destroyed in the 1940 Hollingshead Factory fire and later razed for Interstate 676; today only the 800 block remains.
Larch Street
A small street running from 708 North 2nd Street east to North 8th Street, between State and Vine Streets, in Camden, New Jersey.
Gold Street
Gold Street was a small, secluded street in Camden, New Jersey, between South 8th Street and Silver Street, south of Line Street. First appearing in the 1888 City Directory, its six houses had dwindled to two occupied addresses by 1929, and the street vanished from the records after the 1930 Census.
Litwin Brother's Market
Litwin Brothers Market, a family grocery at 801 Elm Street in North Camden founded by the Litwin family, served the neighborhood from 1941 into the 2000s.
Bulson Street
Bulson Street runs east from Broadway to South 11th Street alongside the railroad tracks, named after 19th-century farmer Gilbert Bulson. At one time the tracks were at street level; in modern times the overpass has been known as "the hump."
Bridge Avenue
Bridge Avenue was one of Camden's most notable thoroughfares, lying between Federal and Mickle Streets. By 1947 only the block east of South 8th Street remained, and that too has long since vanished.
Beckett Street
Beckett Street, named for Henry and Mary Beckett who owned land in South Camden around 1853, originally ran from Front Street to West Street. After 1947 the eastern portion was demolished for an industrial building; today it runs only from South 3rd Street to West Street.
Barton Street
Barton Street, also known as Barton Place, runs for half a block south from 774 Division Street in Camden, first appearing in city directories in 1890; satellite photos from the early 2000s show it providing access to a church parking lot.
Sycamore Street
One of Camden's 'tree' streets.
Bailey Street
Bailey Street runs through North Camden from the 200 block near Cooper Street north to the 800 block. It appears to be named for real estate developer William T. Bailey, who built rows of homes along State, Grant, Bailey, and York Streets in the late 19th century.
Old Cooper Street
Reprinted from the series of stories of Camden's earlier days, under the title Sixty Years in Camden County - Gosh! by Will Paul, appearing in The Community news, of Merchantville, NJ.
Edward N. Cohn
Edward N. Cohn was born in 1832. On the 1870 U.S. Census, he reported his birthplace as Bohemia, while in the 1880 Census he listed it as Germany. It is likely he was born in a region that is now part of the Czech Republic.
Main Street
North Camden street.
Broadway Trust
The Broadway Trust Company, a bank built before World War I at 938-944 Broadway in Camden, New Jersey, operated until shortly after the 1929 crash.
2nd Street
2nd Street extends north-south between Front Street and 3rd Street, running parallel to the Delaware River until Mechanic Street. In the early 1970s, several buildings were cleared on the east side of North 2nd Street below Mickle Street to make way for the Royal Court townhomes and Mickle Tower senior citizens apartment building.
Liberty Street
One of Camden's older streets.
Baring Street
Baring Street runs for one block in South Camden, from Chestnut Street south to Kaighn Avenue, between Marion Street and South 6th Street. The homes were built in 1888 by Wilson Ernst, one of Camden's most active builders of the 1880s.
Joseph A. Alcorn
Joseph A. Alcorn (1919-1958) was a Camden, New Jersey native and US Marine Corps veteran who founded Alcorn Motor Sales on Federal Street in East Camden.
Joseph Alcorn Anecdote
My father, Joseph A. Alcorn , had a used car dealership on the corner of 15th and Federal Streets . He started the business with Skip Gardner as his partner in the late 40's and bought Skip out during that same period.
2 Men Given 6 Months on Theft Counts
Municipal Judge Marino gave six-month jail sentences to two men for theft of an auto battery and $5 of gasoline; Sgt. Earl Wright testified in the gasoline case.
Hospital Cases
Cooper and West Jersey hospital admissions reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 3, 1956, including Rita Procacci of 1125 South 3rd Street, treated for burns of the right hand.
Dominick Persiani Rites Arranged for Saturday
Camden Courier-Post - May 21, 1953 High Mass for Dominick J. Persiani , 35, will be sung Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Sacred Heart R. C. Church . Relatives in the funeral home of Joseph A. Falco, 1020 S. 4th st. , where friends may call Friday night.
Drowning Spurs Move for Fence Along Riverfront
After 10-year-old Robert Allebach of 533 Bailey Street drowned falling from a raft in the Delaware River, North Camden neighbors petitioned the city in February 1950 to build a fence along the riverfront between Seventh and Eighth streets.
Two Hurt as Truck Upsets Auto in South Camden
Camden Courier-Post - July 1, 1941 William Boyle, 19, of Ashland, and his grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Aubacher, 63, of Osage, were pulled through the door of their car, shown above, yesterday after a crash at Eighth street and Central avenue .
Man Jailed as Gambler After Fight in House
Robert Lee of 226 North 11th Street was sentenced to two months in jail for attacking Charles Scott with a meat cleaver after an argument over gambling at William Lloyd's home.
Vacuum Cleaner Sale Sends Seller to Cell
Leonard Hauser of 218 North 8th Street was arrested on $1,000 bail in February 1938 on fraud charges after taking Mrs. Mary Kirby's old vacuum cleaner in exchange for a new one, then failing to return either when the new machine proved defective.
City Bureaus Keep Costs Within Budget for 1937
Brunner Lauds Rulers for $40,000 Saving by Co-operation in Offices $302,000 IS VOTED ON STREET BONDS All departments of the city government were operated within the budget appropriations during 1937 and the city's saving, as a result, was $40,000, Mayor George E. Brunner announced yesterday.
Tax Title Liens Net $112,311 in Month
Liquidation of tax title liens produced $112,311.70 for Camden's treasury during January, Mayor Brunner announced yesterday.
Bathtub Gin Maker Is Held for Court
Police Judge Lewis Liberman held Earl Bundy without bail after detectives testified he was making bathtub gin in his home at 824 Sycamore Street. The court also dismissed charges against two youths accused of coat theft, and fined Francis Murtagh of 117 North 34th Street for reckless driving.
War Veteran Commits Suicide by Hanging in Eighth St. Home
Edward Nixon, 38, described by police as a shell-shocked World War veteran, hanged himself at 124 North Eighth Street. Patrolmen Raymond Stark and Walter Patton cut down the body; he was pronounced dead at Cooper Hospital.
Five Injured in Collision
Five people were injured when a truck overturned after colliding with a car at 8th and Van Hook Streets; Fioranto Costanzo of 209 Beckett Street was among the injured.
Camden Man Injured as Car Turns Turtle
Harry Katz, 25, of 1100 Baring Street suffered cuts to his legs and hands when his car turned over in a collision at Eighth Street and Atlantic Avenue.
4 Youths Arrested in Bicycle Thefts
A ring of bicycle thieves is believed by police to have been broken last night with the arrest of four youths and recovery of five bicycles and parts of several others.
Man Hurt in Car-Bus Crash
A December 1932 Camden Courier-Post report on a head-on collision between a bus and an automobile at Eighth Street and Kaighn Avenue; city fireman George W. Garner suffered a fractured arm, and the bus was driven by J. S. Harrison of 311 North 38th Street.
James Peacock Weds Beulah Meade Today
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.
Auto Gunmen Lose Street Battle Here
Three gunmen in a speeding automobile fired five shotgun blasts near Eighth and Chestnut Streets in Camden on the night of October 30, 1931, narrowly missing pedestrians before escaping; no arrests were made.
Missing From His Home
Albert Brown, 15, of 728 North Tenth street, Camden, was found by detectives in a shack on North Eighth street after going missing the previous Sunday.
Here and There in Camden
Local briefs from Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 1917: Miss Eveline Pratley of 221 North 38th Street lost three fingers in a machine accident at 38th Street and Westfield Avenue. Also: a tugboat injury, a business incorporation, and a child's broken arm.
Guardsman Skater Drowns; Narrow Escape For Four
Charles R. Evans, 19, of 139 South Thirty-second Street in East Camden, broke through the ice on the lake at Forest Hill Park and drowned while 300 fellow skaters looked on. Four would-be rescuers — Harry Haas, Graham Wishart, Wilbur Crane and Matthew Yingling — were dragged from the freezing water by a park guard and a policeman.
Girl Probably Averted Murder
A dispute over a young woman's affections between Albert Williams of 709 Gold Street and Joshua Hines nearly turned deadly until she stepped between the men, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 12, 1911.
News of a Day in the City of Camden
A full day's Camden news for July 27, 1906, including Police Captain Stanley's capture of George Willingmire, wanted for a stabbing at Ninth and Chestnut Streets, after a desperate struggle on the way to jail.