Carbon Street

September 30, 2024 · Updated November 1, 2026 · 2 min read · Streets

Carbon Street, also known as Carbon Court and as Carbine Street, runs south from 1010 Spruce Street into the rear of the parking lot of what has been the Salvation Army headquarters in Camden since the 1960s. This lot had been the home of the Camden Home for Friendless Children from the 19th century into the late 1950s or early 1960s. The street originally ended at ground belonging to the Camden Cemetery; at some point after 1906 a section appears to have been acquired by the Home for Friendless Children.

Carbon Street does not appear in the 1885 Sanborn Map of Camden. It is listed in the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory, with a laborer, William Daly, living at 7 “Carbine Street.” By 1891, 10 houses stood on Carbon Street, numbered 901 through 910. No homes are listed in the 1924 Camden City Directory; however, a Frank Long is listed at 905 Carbon Street in the 1929 edition. The 1930 Census shows two occupied homes on Carbon Street, the Long family at 905, and Louis Rivell and family at 908 Carbon. By 1932 all but one of the homes on Carbon Street were the property of the nearby Home for Friendless Children. As Louis Rivell was in 1928 employed as a janitor at the nearby Home for Friendless Children, the acquisition of the properties probably had already taken place.

The 1943 City Directory shows 905 Carbon Street as a vacant dwelling, and no homes are listed in the 1947 edition.

Carbon Street, also known as Carbine Street.

Carbon Street map, also known as Carbine Street, Camden NJ — Carbon Street, also known as Carbine Street.

Carbon Street, 1906.

900 Block of Carbon Street

900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants

City directory records, 1887–1943. All homes on Carbon Street were gone by 1943, having been acquired by the nearby Home for Friendless Children.

901 Carbon Street

901 Carbon Street — 900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants
year	name
1943	Gone

902 Carbon Street

902 Carbon Street — 900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants
year	name
1943	Gone

903 Carbon Street

903 Carbon Street — 900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants
year	name
1895	Albert Barczah (laborer)
1895	Albert Barczan
1943	Gone

904 Carbon Street

904 Carbon Street — 900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants
year	name
1903	Antonio Wislouskie
1903	Antonio Wislonskie
1905	John M. Feltze
1943	Gone

905 Carbon Street

905 Carbon Street — 900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants
year	name
1929–1930	Frank Long & Family
1929–1930	Frank & Esther Long
1929–1930	Frank Long Jr.
1929–1930	Edna Long
1929–1930	Mahlon Long
1929–1930	Edward Long
1929–1930	Louis Long
1943	Vacant
1947	Gone

906 Carbon Street

906 Carbon Street — 900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants
year	name
1943	Gone

907 Carbon Street

907 Carbon Street — 900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants
year	name
1943	Gone

908 Carbon Street

908 Carbon Street — 900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants
year	name
1930	Louis Rivell & Family
1930	Louis & Effie Rivell
1930	Eleanore Rivell
1930	Elizabeth Rivell
1943	Gone

909 Carbon Street

909 Carbon Street — 900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants
year	name
1909	Pauline Salotta
1943	Gone

910 Carbon Street

910 Carbon Street — 900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants
year	name
1899	Kraft Eicker & Family
1899	Kraft & Mary Niszler Eicker
1943	Gone

Carbon Street, 1930 Census.