Bridge Avenue, once a prominent thoroughfare in Camden, is now little more than a memory. Situated between Federal and Mickle Streets, it boasted buildings on both sides stretching as far east as South 5th Street by the 1890s. By 1924, Bridge Avenue ran along the north side of the railroad tracks originating at the Market Street Ferry, with Mickle Street running parallel on the south side.
However, by 1924, Bridge Avenue below South 5th Street had vanished. It then commenced at Hudson Street and concluded at Broadway, resuming briefly at South 8th Street for one block. By 1947, only the block east of South 8th Street remained, and it too has long since disappeared. Presently, what was once Bridge Avenue forms part of the property at the rear of the Police Administration building.
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![Sanborn Map Company. Camden, New Jersey (Sheet 11). [TIFF]. New York : Sanborn Map and Publishing Co., Limited, June 1885. Retrieved from https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-dv13zv61s Showing 2nd Street, 3rd Street, 4th Street, 5th Street, Arch Street, Federal Street, Bridge Avenue, Mickle Street, and West Street](https://camdenhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/1885-Sanborn-Map-Sheet-11.webp)
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