Carbine Street

Carbon Street—also known at different times as Carbon Court and Carbine Street—runs south from 1010 Spruce Street into the rear parking lot of the Salvation Army headquarters in Camden, which has been located there since the 1960s. Before that, this lot was home to the Camden Home for Friendless Children, which operated from the 19th century until the late 1950s or early 1960s. Originally, the street ended at land owned by the Camden Cemetery, but sometime after 1906 a portion appears to have been acquired by the Home for Friendless Children.

Carbon Street does not appear on the 1885 Sanborn Map of Camden. However, it is listed in the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory, with a laborer named William Daly recorded as living at 7 "Carbine Street." By 1891, the street had grown to include ten houses, numbered 901 through 910.

The 1924 Camden City Directory does not list any homes on Carbon Street, but the 1929 edition shows Frank Long living at 905. The 1930 U.S. Census records two families still residing there: the Long family at 905 and Louis Rivell with his family at 908. By 1932, nearly all of the homes had been acquired by the Home for Friendless Children, with the exception of one. Since Louis Rivell was working as a janitor for the Home in 1928, the property acquisitions likely occurred around that time.

By 1943, the City Directory listed 905 Carbon Street as vacant, and by 1947, no homes were listed at all.