Scene of Camden Bombing - At left, standing: Adam Coccia. Kneeling Matteo Coccia
Division Street in Camden likely got its name because it was meant to signify a boundary or separation—though what it specifically divided isn't entirely clear today. Unlike Line Street, which has a documented origin as the boundary line between the historic Cooper and Kaighn family properties, Division Street doesn't have a known or well-recorded division to point to.
It’s possible the name was chosen with the intention of marking a future boundary—perhaps between city wards, neighborhoods, or land parcels—but over time, the original significance may have faded or simply never materialized. Naming streets like “Division” was common in urban planning, even if they didn’t end up serving a practical dividing function.
So, while Line Street’s origin is firmly tied to historical property lines, Division Street may have just sounded appropriate in that context, even if it ended up dividing little more than city blocks.
In 1997, a portion of Division Street was renamed to Ramona Gonzalez Street to commemorate a community leader. The remainder of the street continues to bear the name Division Street.
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200 Block of Division Street
200 Block of Division Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper clippings.
214 Division Street
214 Division Street — 200 Block of Division Street — Occupants
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1906
Donato Fanelle — Rags
224 Division Street
224 Division Street — 200 Block of Division Street — Occupants
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1909
Mrs. Josephine Ventresca — saloon
228 Division Street
228 Division Street — 200 Block of Division Street — Occupants
My Aunt Anna Jelonek Crassovaz and her husband Joseph Crassovaz lived at 560 Division Street. This home has been kept up very nicely. Aunt Anna Jelonek Crassovaz died about 1959 and so did my Father in 1959. My Uncle Joe Crassovaz married my Mother. We had been living in Woodlyne NJ since 1956, then move to Barrington in 1961.
Uncle Joe sold the house on Division Street to his sister Marie. I think she stayed their until she died.
Arthur A. Jelonek Jr., February 2015
500 Block of Division Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper clippings.
507 Division Street
507 Division Street — 500 Block of Division Street — Occupants
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1938
Dorothy Gorman
1947–1974
Norman Baynard & Family — Norman & Mary Emma Baynard
508 Division Street
508 Division Street — 500 Block of Division Street — Occupants
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1914
William B. Champion & Family — huckster; William B. & Ethel Champion
509 Division Street
509 Division Street — 500 Block of Division Street — Occupants
At 8 P.M. on January 15th, Box 374 at Sixth and Spruce Streets was transmitted for a phone alarm reporting a dwelling at 838 Division Street, South Camden. Arriving fire fighters found nothing and following a search of the neighborhood, declared the incident a false alarm. Some thirteen minutes later, 374 Box was again transmitted, now reporting the address of 638 Division Street, more than two blocks from the previous location. This time, units found a three-story frame heavily involved with fire extending to adjoining properties. The wrong address had caused the blaze to gain considerable headway. A second alarm assignment was required.
600 Block of Division Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper clippings.
616 Division Street
616 Division Street — 600 Block of Division Street — Occupants
In photo… on the left, my dad, Arthur ACKLEY, who at the time was living at 242 N. 7th Street, Camden. However, his family's home was at 808 Fern Street. In the middle is Annie COSTELLO, a friend of my mom's (Dorothy REED). On the right is Nelson REED, my mom's father. My mom's family lived at 805 Kimber Street. Nelson was originally from Millville, NJ.
In 1940 Annie Costello lived at 764 Division Street with mother Mary and siblings, Frances, Nicholas, Elizabeth, Dorothy & Joan.
Cindy Ackley Nunn, November 15, 2015
700 Block of Division Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper clippings.
714 Division Street
714 Division Street — 700 Block of Division Street — Occupants
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1920s–1930s
Howard & Elizabeth Hogate Family — Earl Hogate
718 Division Street
718 Division Street — 700 Block of Division Street — Occupants
771 Division Street — 700 Block of Division Street — Occupants
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1905–1947
John Oscar Marlow & Family — Civil War veteran; J. Oscar & Christina Wiley Marlow, J. Oscar Marlowe Jr., Henry 'Harry' Marlow, Mary Marlow, Ella Marlow
772 Division Street
772 Division Street — 700 Block of Division Street — Occupants
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1940–1964
Thaddeus Stokely & Family — Thaddeus & Alice Stokley
773 Division Street
773 Division Street — 700 Block of Division Street — Occupants
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1899
Lewis H. Clements & Family — Lewis H. & Rebecca C. Smith Clements, Minnie Clements, Harry L. Clements
Edward L. Troutman & Family — Edward L. & Elnora Troutman, William Troutman, Ethel Troutman, John Troutman, James Troutman, Betty Troutman, Kenneth Troutman, Elnora Troutman
Charles E. Watkin Jr. (1879-1954) was a Camden Fire Department captain who served over 34 years, from his appointment on January 1, 1915 until his retirement on May 1, 1949.
Dauphin Street runs south from Line Street across Pine Street to Division Street, between South 4th and South 5th Streets in South Camden. Originally called Kaighn Street, it was renamed in January 1882.
Coates Alley is a short street in Camden that originally ran parallel to Broadway and South 5th Street from Cherry Street north across Spruce Street to Division Street. Today it is one block long, running from Spruce Street to Division Street.
Carman Street ran from Broadway to South 8th Street downtown and, across the Cooper River, from 15th Street through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at 31st Street. It is apparently named for William Carman, whose home at Broadway and Federal Street stood until 1902.
Simmons Court is one of Camden's "lost streets." This page traces its history from Henry Simmons' purchase, before 1863, of the lots that became 240, 242 and 244 Division Street.
Bella Place is an L-shaped court that once had nine houses running north from 751 Spruce Street, connecting via a narrow alley to 754 Division Street; as of 2004, the houses are gone.
Baxter Street (formerly Newton Street and locally known as "Hog Alley") ran from South 7th Street to Mount Ephraim Avenue in South Camden, notorious for decades as a hub of illegal activity; largely demolished, the 700 block survives as an overgrown alley.
Barton Street, also known as Barton Place, runs for half a block south from 774 Division Street in Camden, first appearing in city directories in 1890; satellite photos from the early 2000s show it providing access to a church parking lot.
Atlanta Road runs north to south through the Fairview section of Camden, from Olympia Road to Alabama Road, paralleling Mount Ephraim Avenue. The northern segment (North Atlanta Road) ends at Collings Road; the southern segment (South Atlanta Road) continues to Alabama Road.
29th Street runs from the Delaware River south across River Road to the Pavonia railroad yards, then from Pleasant Street to Westfield Avenue and from Federal Street to Clinton Street. It is North 29th Street above Federal and South 29th below.
Clare Street is a one-block thoroughfare in South Camden, running from Pine Street to Division Street. Originally called Pine Avenue, it was renamed Clare Street between 1878 and 1890, then later renamed Jesthroe Hunt Sr. Lane in honor of a Camden firefighter who passed away in 2005.
Seventeenth Street runs through two separate sections of Camden: North 17th Street extends from Harrison Avenue to River Avenue through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, while South 17th Street runs from Federal Street southward across Carman Street to Admiral Wilson Boulevard in East Camden.
Locust Street ran south from Beckett Street to Mechanic Street between South 2nd and South 3rd Streets in Camden; its 700 block was known as Oak Street until about 1883 and its 600 block as John Street in the 1870s. Homes and businesses disappeared block by block after World War II, and the last structure, at 1128 Locust, was razed after a fire in 2010.
Isaac Merrick, born around 1843, possibly in England, established residence in Camden by 1869, initially residing at 230 Division Street , followed by 424 Mt.
The Zuni Athletic Association sponsored semi-pro sports teams as early as the spring of 1930 and into the early 60s. It appears to have founded in that year.
2nd Street extends north-south between Front Street and 3rd Street, running parallel to the Delaware River until Mechanic Street. In the early 1970s, several buildings were cleared on the east side of North 2nd Street below Mickle Street to make way for the Royal Court townhomes and Mickle Tower senior citizens apartment building.
Liberty Street, listed in the 1850 Camden City Directory, was in the early 20th century a culturally diverse area west of Broadway, home to ethnic communities employed in nearby factories and stores.
Pine Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets and the only one that intersects Haddon Avenue. The page includes the 1891 Sanborn Map and a view of old row homes east of Broadway.
Fifth Street was one of Camden's original streets, running south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Newton Avenue to just west of Pyne Point in North Camden.
Camden Courier-Post - August 10, 2016 CAMDEN - Subaru of America isn't expected to move here until sometime next year, but the firm's already had a change of address.
Death notice for Carmella Troncone (nee Mecca), 94, widow of Fiore Troncone of 815 South 4th Street, whose funeral was held from the Troncone Funeral Home at 819 South 4th Street.
Obituary of Francesco Blasi, 71, of 454 Royden Street, a retired Camden County maintenance employee and World War I veteran, from the Camden Courier-Post of November 19, 1964.
Mrs. Marie E. Simon, 68, of 20 Fogarty Avenue, known to an earlier generation of Camden newspapermen as "Mame Kenney" and to her neighbors as the "Mayor of Fogarty Ave.," died at West Jersey Hospital in February 1959.
Obituary for Vincenzo Pucci, 71, of 605 Avon Street, a native of Italy and 40-year Camden resident, former employee of White Lamb Finlay Co.; survived by his wife Felicia, daughter Mrs. Mary Doto and brother Dominic.
Obituary of Domenic F. Persiano, 31, of 526 Royden Street, a Camden tailor and World War II veteran, from the Camden Courier-Post of December 10, 1957.
Obituary for Mrs. Anna E. Sterrett of 604 Avon Street, who died at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. She had lived in Camden four years, survived by her husband James A. and a daughter.
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.
Obituary for John F. Warren, 68, of 525 Borton Street, an engineer at the Commercial Trust Building in Philadelphia, survived by his widow Sophie and two daughters.
Raymond J. Kuntz, 35, a Standard Tank and Seat Co. worker who lived at 78 Vine Street, was found hanging in the cellar of his home by Mrs. Alice Martz of 603 North Front Street and his mother; Coroner Robert Blake listed his death as suicide.
Obituary of John T. Cleary, 59, of 1316 Park Boulevard — former assistant prosecutor and Camden police judge — who died at Philadelphia Naval Hospital after a long illness.
Page 23 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: an advertisement for G. Vignola's Federal Cleaners & Dyers at 2800 Federal Street, around an installment of the parish history telling how Father Byrne bought the plot at Westfield Avenue and Federal Street that became St. Patrick's cemetery, and how the Saints Peter and Paul, Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Sacred Heart parishes began.
Trenton, July 24.—Helen M. Redfield, 624 Royden street, Camden, scored first out of a list of seven women who passed the examination for information clerk in the Camden Welfare Department, the State C
The City of Camden scheduled the sale of a one-story public garage building with 28 individual garages at 2626 Carman Street, acquired for unpaid taxes, along with seven other tax-delinquent properties including vacant land on Twenty-seventh Street south of Garfield Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, July 4, 1941.
Hospital cases reported in Camden on February 14, 1938, including Ralph Williams of 413 North 29th Street treated at West Jersey Hospital for a laceration of the knee.
Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes of 519 Newton Avenue was fined $25 for allowing disorderly persons to congregate after a woman screamed murder at 3 AM, drawing police to the house.
Camden police under Chief Arthur Colsey opened a city-wide hunt for the bandits who shot Detective William T. Feitz four times in the back when he surprised a holdup of 20 persons in a house at 243 Sycamore Street.
Three Camden residents were arrested after an Ardmore man was robbed of his watch and $25 near Second and Pine streets, including Viola Lewis of 315 Division Street.
Marriage license applications filed in June 1933, including Helen Graczyk, 23, of 1581 South 10th Street, Camden, and Robert Alberts, 31, of Billingsport Avenue, Paulsboro.
Miss Nettie Viggiano of 269 Division Street married Anthony Teti of Philadelphia at Mt. Carmel R. C. Church; over 100 attended the reception at Morgan's Hall.
Five couples applied for marriage licenses in Camden as the month of June brides began, including Warren Spruill of 3522 Farragut Avenue and Alice Slemmer of North 36th Street.
Camden Wrestler and Bridge Are Given Dinner Attended by Notables Miss Emma Palladino , one of the fairest daughters of Camden's "Little Italy" yesterday became the bride of Joseph Montana , heavyweight wrestler, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church , Fourth and Division street s. Idol of Italian youth in this city Montana was hailed by hundreds of them outside the church.
Police raided an alleged speakeasy at 1067 Thurman Street and seized four women, five men and 500 bottles of homebrew, according to the Camden Courier-Post of June 18, 1932.
Two youths found in a stupor from drinking liquor, George Burrell of 1208 Thurman Street and Dominick Ravieri of 325 Division Street, were held in $500 bail each while Judge Garfield Pancoast ordered police to find the speakeasy that sold it.
With the death toll from the gas blast at the Public Service Electric & Gas Co. plant at Locust and Cherry streets increased to 15, families began burying their dead; Spiro Cecich, 37, of 1815 Salem Street died in Cooper Hospital.
