Birch Street at one time ran from Front Street through to Ninth. Various projects over the years have taken pieces of Birch Street off the map.
When the Delaware River Bridge was built in the early 1920s, the south side of Birch Street was razed from Front to Third Street. Fourth through Eighth Streets were taken in their entireties over the years as the Delaware River Port Authority required more space for administrative and maintenance buildings, and the Northgate Apartment Buildings were built.
Aviation Machinists Mate Third Class Livio Joseph Banda, born and raised on Birch Street, was killed in action while serving with the United States Navy during World War II.
Adelbert J. "Duke" Kirk Sr. (1918-1989) was a Camden firefighter who was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on November 16, 1956 and served with Engine Company 3 until his retirement on December 1, 1981.
Walter Dayton Eastlack (1889–1964) was a Camden firefighter who served 29 years with the Camden Fire Department, from his appointment on March 3, 1925 to his retirement on March 15, 1954.
Earl Wright joined the Camden police force in 1928, serving as a motorcycle patrolman and later Sergeant. He is best known as the officer who arrested mass murderer Howard Unruh on September 6, 1949.
Aviation Machinist's Mate Third Class, Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-119, U.S. Navy; killed in action May 1, 1945 when his PB4Y-2 Privateer was shot down over Hainan Island. He had lived at 320 Birch Street, Camden, NJ.
James Court was a brief, six-house street running east from 114 Point Street between Pearl and Birch Streets, erased in the early 1920s by the construction of the Delaware River Bridge.
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.
EDWIN FORREST ALLEN was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on October 9, 1872, as a replacement for David B. Sparks, who had resigned. He served as an extra man with the Hook and Ladder Company (present-day Ladder Company 1). He was resigned from his position with the Fire Department on June 30, 1873. He was replaced by John Gray. Edwin F. Allen was on occasion recorded as Edward F. Allen, however, Edwin was his given name.
In the early hours of October 14, 2003, the Camden City Fire Department responded to a working house fire at 117 Birch Street. Battalion 2 found heavy fire conditions in a vacant twin with fire through the roof. Photos and account by Ted Auig.
Mrs. Anna Kennedy, 41, of 537 Birch Street, died in West Jersey Hospital. She had been a resident of Camden for 30 years. Services at the LeRoy R. Wooster Funeral Home, Atco.
Harry S. Helferich, 72, of 601 Birch Street, died November 21, 1957. Funeral services at B. C. Schroeder and Sons, 715 Cooper Street. Interment at Arlington Cemetery.
Children on North 6th Street between Elm and Birch raised $80.20 for the emergency March of Dimes with a two-hour variety show directed by fireman Wesley Faust.
A July 1941 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for 3 Bros. Markets, listing four store locations — 7th & Vine and 3rd & Birch in North Camden, 9th & Pine and 6th & Walnut in South Camden — with weekend meat specials.
Carl Weber, 21, of 815 Birch Street, was arrested by the FBI for larceny of a .45 caliber pistol from the 157th Field Artillery Armory. He implicated Martin J. Corbert, who was arrested by U.S. Marshall Bernard J. Tracy.
Group Gaining Weight in Vermont Mountains as They Clear Timber to Make Way for Jam, And Sleep Under Heavy Blankets Forty-three Camden city and county men with Company 2204, Citizens' Conservation Corps, are now located at Knapp Andrew Camp, Montpelier, Vt., word received here yesterday disclosed.
Police Judge Pancoast is firmly convinced that 3.2 beer is not intoxicating. He emphatically expressed himself so to George Shuts, 34, of 410 Birch Street, Saturday when Shuts, who was charged with drunkenness, said he had been drinking beer.
Funeral services for William H. Davis, 56, of 213 Birch Street, who died Sunday, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Schroeder funeral chapel, Broadway and Royden Street. Burial in Mays Landing Cemetery.
William Warner, 70, of 727 Birch Street, is in Cooper Hospital with a possible fractured skull after falling from his rooftop while installing a radio aerial.
Corporal John W. "Bucky" Ward, Camden's war hero, was buried with full ceremony after his body was sent from Honolulu. Services were held at the home of his sister, Mrs. Mary Wallace, 529 Birch Street.
Philip Weisen, 29, of 837 Birch Street, and three other Camden men were arrested in Delanco on charges of stealing chickens and held in Burlington County jail under $1,000 bail each.
Charles Morgan, 732 Birch Street, a former city parks department laborer, will appear in Workmen's Compensation Court claiming disability from being kicked by a horse at the 112th Field Artillery Armory stables. The city is represented by assistant city solicitor Rocco Palese.
John Gillis, 16, of 517 Birch Street, and Artilo Alleva, 15, who ran away from home, told Police Judge Bertman that the biggest drawback was not eating regular. They were arrested while stealing bottles of milk from a doorstep.
Charles Sheean, a printer of 826 Birch Street, had been missing since May 29 after being struck by a car at Ninth and Market Streets on Memorial Day. He was found dying in Cooper Hospital and died that night with fractured skull.
Charles Sheean, a North Camden printer missing since May 29, was found dying in Cooper Hospital of injuries from a Memorial Day auto accident; police planned to re-arrest the driver before Police Judge Cleary.
Jacob Dreher, 25, of 214 Birch Street, and Walter A. Trebing, 27, of 508 North Fifth Street, were thrown from their motorcycle in a crash with an automobile. Dreher sustained a fracture of the right leg.
Mrs. Margaret Williams, aged 41, of 125 Birch Street, was so severely shaken up when trolley cars bumped at the Federal Street ferry that she was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Mrs. Lulu Genther and Alfred Ivins, of 537 Birch Street, were committed by Justice Wright in default of $500 bail each on a charge preferred by the woman's husband. The Genthers have two children.
W. Harry Smith, then with George W. Fry's buffet at 29 North Third Street, was congratulated by his friends on his birthday anniversary, the Camden Daily Courier reported in September 1910.
John Humes, a driver for J. R. Carson, a grocer of Third and Birch streets, was thrown beneath his wagon and had his shoulder broken in a runaway that aroused Camden's business section.
Bryant Smith, who was whirled about in a fir wheel at a paper mill, will probably have one of his feet amputated at Cooper Hospital. From the Camden News Notes column, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 9, 1905.
Emley Herman, 10, of 323 Birch Street, was taking a cat to Philadelphia in a basket when the cat escaped on the ferryboat. In trying to recapture it he was severely bitten on the thumb.
First Sergeant August B. Mendell, who was stricken with paralysis on the 27th, died at his home, 217 Birch Street. He was one of the oldest members of the Sixth Regiment.
A fire at a Sixth and Mill Street stable spread to the Philadelphia and Camden Soap Works at 511–513 Main Street and damaged dwellings on Branch Street, causing $16,000 in losses on the night of April 13, 1887.
