Branch Street
Branch Street is a one block street that runs from 1460 Broadway east to South 6th Street. It appeared on City Directories in 1878, and according to the 1906 Camden City Directory, it had been referred to as Commerce Street until some point between the publication of the 1888–1889 and 1890–1891 City Directories.
500 Block of Branch Street
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Dr. Henry H. Davis
Physician, pharmacist, and Camden's first Medical Inspector; later Health Director and chief school physician who shaped public-school health care in Camden for a generation.
Phone Wire Marksman Held for Grand Jury
William H. Filer, 19, of 500 Branch Street, held in $1,000 bail for Grand Jury action after firing a gun into a telephone trunk cable at Broadway and Lansdowne Avenue.
George Levings
Obituary for George Levings, 52, of 505 Branch Street, who died of heart trouble at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
Held on a Serious Charge
John Fitzgerald, 52, locked up in Camden county jail charged with felonious assault on 13-year-old Mary E. Painter of 513 Branch Street; Mary E. Freeman held as accessory.
Disorderly House Raid
Police raided Emma Dangerfield's disorderly house on Branch Street, arresting the proprietress and multiple others; hearing held before the Mayor.
A Night Alarm
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.
Infant's Body Found on Broadway
Coroner Davis took charge of the body of an infant found on Broadway near Branch Street, and of the recovered body of William Knowells, drowned off the Chestnut Street wharf.