Cambridge Street
Cambridge Avenue, also known as Cambridge Street, begins at the Delaware River in what was originally called the Pavonia section of what is now considered Cramer Hill and runs easterly, crossing Harrison Avenue, Pierce Avenue, Wayne Avenue, and River Avenue until it intersects with North 27th Street, between North 26th Street and Dupont Street.
Along with Dupont Street, it is one of only two east-west streets in Cramer Hill below North 27th Street to retain its name from before 1899, when this area was part of the town of Stockton. In that year Stockton, then comprising what is now known as East Camden and Cramer Hill, merged with Camden.
Cramer Hill & East Camden, c. 1914–1915.

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Looking west from about North 24th Street & Howell Street, July 7, 1965.

1000 Block of Cambridge Avenue
City directory records, 1890s–2009.
1045 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1890s–1910s | John Gottlieb & Wilhelmina Foehl |
| 1890s–1910s | John G. Foehl Jr. |
| 1890s–1910s | William F. Foehl |
| 1890s–1910s | Minnie Foehl |
| 1947 | Eureka Brass Foundry |
1041 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1890s–1910s | John G. Foehl (beer bottling) |
| 1920 | Eureka Brass Foundry |
1041–1045 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Eureka Brass Foundry |
| 1952–1959 | Brown Foundry Corporation |
1037 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1933 | George William & Emma Fleischer |
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
| 1960s | Warren 'Larry' Worrell |
1033 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1890s–1900s | George Washington Elementary School (original) |
| 1907–2012 | George Washington Elementary School |
| 1930 | Joseph & Louise Guetherman |
| 1930 | Joseph Guetherman Jr. |
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
| 2009 | Vacant |
1028 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1918 | Albert Boyle |
| 1930 | Shannon H. & Josephine E. Campbell |
| 1930 | Harold H. Campbell |
| 1930 | Edward W. Campbell |
| 1930 | William R. Campbell |
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1005 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1918–1930 | William & Marie Oberkampf |
| 1918–1930 | Albert Oberkampf |
| 1947 | Gone |
Warren "Larry" Worrell — 1037 Cambridge Avenue
Warren "Larry" Worrell, 1037 Cambridge Avenue. U.S. Army, 1965–1968; Camden Police Department, 1969–1993.

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1033 Cambridge Avenue, July 2009
George Washington Elementary School — 1033 Cambridge Avenue
George Washington Elementary School, 1033 Cambridge Avenue. Postcard, c. 1907.

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George Washington Elementary School, 1033 Cambridge Avenue, July 13, 2011.

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Pavonia Hose Company No. 3 — River Avenue & Cambridge Avenue
1100 Block of Cambridge Avenue
City directory records, 1918–1947.
1149 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1147 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Mrs. Sophia Julian |
1145 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
| 1955 | John Crawford & Family |
| 1955 | Mary Crawford |
1143 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1141 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1140 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1138 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1934 | Joseph Tischner |
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1135 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1130 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1123 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1122 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1919–1920 | Gustaf & Hilma Vecander |
| 1919–1920 | Harold Vecander |
| 1919–1920 | Walter Vecander |
| 1919–1920 | Francis Vecander |
| 1919–1920 | Lila Vecander |
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1117 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1116 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1110 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1918 | John G. Schneider |
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1109 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1926 | Marian Grace Schwab |
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1105 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1103 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1100 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Marcus Simon & Son (confectionary) |
| 1947 | Marcus Simon |
1200 Block of Cambridge Avenue
City directory records, 1918–1988.
1247 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1957 | Carol Foster |
1244 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1918 | David Hauer |
| 1933 | Frank Tischner & Family |
| 1933 | Dorothy Tischner |
1243 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1239 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1933 | East End Laundry |
| 1964–2000s | William Hargrove Roofing Company |
1238 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1237 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1224 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1932 | East End Laundry |
1221 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1216 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1918 | Charles P. Haines |
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1205 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1918 | W. McLeester |
| 1947 | No listing in directory |
1200–1208 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Cambridge Repair Service (bicycles) |
| 1947–1988 | Charles E. Capner Sr. & Family |
Foot of Cambridge Avenue
City directory records, 1947–2011.
1301 Cambridge Avenue
| year | name |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Frank Shive |
| 1955 | Charles T. Banks Towing Line |
| 2011 | Riverfront Recycling & Aggregate |
Intersection of River Avenue, Cambridge Avenue & North 27th Street — August 22, 2011
A color photograph of a street corner on a sunny day, dominated by a bright yellow tire and auto repair shop with a tall yellow "5 Point" pole sign, a fenced yard stacked with tires, and a street sign reading Cambridge St. A multi-story red brick building stands beyond the shop, and utility poles and overhead wires cross the sky. A white SUV is partly visible at the lower left edge of the frame.

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Street-corner view with a large three-story brick building behind, its upper facade carrying a lettered sign band that cannot be read at this resolution. At the corner is a tire and auto repair shop with a red canopy, stacked tires and a black iron fence, marked by a tall yellow "5 Point Tire-Auto Repairs" sign with a phone number. Street signs at the shop corner include One Way, Do Not Enter (with graffiti) and a blue-and-yellow Safe Corridor diamond. Two pedestrians walk along the sidewalk, and a tan sedan, a silver car and a dark SUV are on the street beside a traffic signal and utility poles.

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Wide view across a street intersection toward a narrow, three-story brick corner building with a slate mansard roof and bay windows, a white banner hung above its boarded ground-floor door. A tall traffic-signal mast arm in the foreground carries a green "River Rd" street sign with a Camden County route 543 shield. Beyond are a Do Not Enter sign, a few parked and moving cars, pedestrians in the distance, a white frame house and trees under a blue sky with overhead wires.

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A two-story corner building with a brick ground floor and light blue siding above stands at a street corner under a tangle of utility wires. Its ground-floor windows are barred or boarded, with graffiti on the brick, and a solar panel is mounted on the utility pole in front. An orange ROAD CLOSED sign and a row of traffic cones sit in the street, and a red sedan is stopped beside them on the right.

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A three-story red brick corner building with a slate mansard roof and bay windows stands at a street intersection under overhead wires. Its ground-floor windows are boarded, graffiti marks a utility box on the sidewalk, and a white sedan and a dark SUV are parked along the curb on the left. Across the intersection, a two-story building with light blue siding and a solar panel on its utility pole is visible at the right, beside traffic signals and green street-name signs.

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View across the intersection of River Avenue and North 27th Street in Camden toward a brick and frame building at the northwest corner, with traffic signals and street signs. Photographed August 22, 2011.

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A wide view across a street intersection on a sunny day, showing a row of attached two- and three-story buildings with ground-floor shops: a supermarket in a white one-story building, a pink-fronted store with a magenta awning, a laundromat, and brick rowhouses. Street signs hang from traffic-signal arms, and a red minivan, a white SUV and parked cars are on the street. The intersection is the one on River Avenue, Cambridge Avenue and North 27th Street.

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A sunny street corner in Camden with a one-story white cinder-block building that carries two Ramos Supermarket signs, a hand-painted red script sign and a green lettered sign, and a graffiti-covered wall above it. Next to it is a pink three-story building whose ground-floor store has a magenta awning reading Ramos Supermarket with a telephone number, and beside that a Wash & Dry Laundromat. A green River Rd 543 street sign hangs from the signal arm at the upper right, with traffic cones on the sidewalk, a one-way sign, and a red minivan and a white SUV parked at the curb.

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View from the northwest corner of North 27th Street and River Avenue toward the southeast corner of River and Cambridge Avenues, Camden, with a three-story brick building, traffic signals and street signs. Photographed August 22, 2011.

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River Road at North 27th Street, looking west, August 2011. Cramer Hill / East Camden, NJ.

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A sunny street corner seen across a wide intersection, with overhead street signs for River Rd, 27th St (Camden County 609) and Cambridge St hanging from traffic-signal arms. On the left is a cream-colored corner building with blue awnings and stripes, housing Luis Records & Electronics and a Western Union sign; a red sedan is parked at its curb. Across the intersection a bright yellow building carries 5 Point Tire-Auto Repairs signs and a tall pole sign with a red star and telephone number 856-635-0009, behind a black iron fence.

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A sunny street-level view across the intersection where River Avenue, Cambridge Avenue and North 27th Street meet, with overhead traffic signals and utility wires crossing the sky. A yellow and red corner building with a star-topped "5 Point Tire-Auto Repairs" sign stands behind a black iron fence, with stacked tires visible inside, and a multi-story brick building with a Do Not Enter sign is on the right. Green street signs for 27th St and Cambridge St hang from the signal arms.

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Intersection of River Avenue, Cambridge Avenue & North 27th Street, August 22, 2011.

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River Avenue
River Avenue, more popularly known as River Road, runs north from Federal Street to the Camden city limits and became a Camden thoroughfare in 1899, when the town of Stockton was united with the city. It is the main artery of Cramer Hill and the location of many stores and small businesses.

James G. Blaine School
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.

Hospital Cases
Cooper Hospital cases listed in the Camden Courier-Post, September 20, 1957, including Carol Foster, 7, of 1247 Cambridge Street, with a dog bite of the hand.

Her Life Saved by a Rare Operation
Three-month-old Mary Crawford of 1145 Cambridge Street, whose lung was ruptured by an exploding cyst, had her life saved by a rare operation.

Sick Baby Moved Quickly Between Local Hospitals
A seriously ill three-month-old baby at 1145 Cambridge Street was transferred between Camden hospitals in a record dash by Collingswood police officers.

Charles T. Banks Towing Line
Charles T. Banks Towing Line, 1301 Cambridge Avenue — river, bay, and coastwise towing, ship repair, machine shop, and boat storage.

Brown Foundry Corporation
Brown Foundry Corporation, 1041–1045 Cambridge Avenue — bronze castings, rods and bushings, alumin, manganese and special alloys.

Police Investigate 3 Fires in 4 Hours In One Section
Kaighn School Razed; Blazes Set in Church, Unoccupied House Police today are investigating the possibility that three fires Wednesday within a quarter-mile area inside of three hours and 46 minutes were the work of a firebug.

Boat Blaze Kills Ex-Camden Man
Charles Edward Capner Jr., former resident of 1200 Cambridge Street, was killed in a fire aboard a houseboat in Honolulu as he prepared to play Santa Claus.

Joseph Tischner Liquor License Application
Joseph Tischner of 1138 Cambridge Street intends to apply for a Plenary Retail Consumption license for premises at 253 N. 27th Street.

Mrs. Sophia Julian
Funeral services for Mrs. Sophia Julian, 77, of 1147 Cambridge Street, who died at her home Wednesday, to be held from the residence.

2 Camden Men Pay Liquor Law Fines in Federal Court
Three From Shore Also Assessed by Judge Avis for Rum Possession ALL 5 PLEAD GUILTY Two Camden men were among a group of five liquor law violators to pay fines yesterday in U. S. District Court before Judge John Boyd Avis after pleading guilty to charges of possession.
Frank Tischner Pleads Guilty
Frank Tischner of 1244 Cambridge Street pleaded guilty to possession and nuisance; sentence deferred until June 19.

Building Permits
Building permits issued September 25, 1920, including a brick foundry building at 1041 Cambridge Street for the Eureka Brass Foundry.

Foehl Fined by Recorder Nowrey
Gottlieb Foehl, a wholesale liquor dealer of the East Side, was fined $50 and costs by Recorder Nowrey for selling liquor in less quantity than one quart.

