Haddon Avenue
Haddon Avenue is one of the oldest roads in Camden, dating back to at least 1792, when it was little more than a bridle path. The road was gravelled in the early 1820s, and in 1839 an act of the New Jersey Legislature enabled the incorporation of the Haddonfield & Camden Turnpike Company. The turnpike was completed in 1847 and remained a toll road for many years.
In Camden, Haddon Avenue runs southeast from 592 Federal Street to the city limits, in the direction of Collingswood, Haddon Township, and Haddonfield.
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Federal Street
Intersection of Haddon Avenue, South 6th Street & Carman Street
Southeast corner: Simon M. Lyons Marble & Granite Works, 1894–1897; M.C. Lyons Son Marble & Granite Works (Andrew Lyons), 1898–1924.
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Mickle Street
Haddon Avenue crossed the Pennsylvania Railroad at Mickle Street. From 1887 to 1888 the Junction Hotel (William and Katie Zimmerman) stood here, near the Haddon Avenue Station.
Third Regiment Armory & Convention Hall — 210 Haddon Avenue
The Third Regiment Armory (3rd Regiment National Guard, N.J.) stood at 210 Haddon Avenue, across from Camden's pre-1931 City Hall. After the original Convention Hall on Memorial Avenue burned in 1954, the old Armory was renamed Convention Hall. See Convention Hall for the full history and postcards.
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Wright Avenue
From 1871 to 1931, Camden City Hall stood at the intersection of Haddon Avenue and Wright Avenue.
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Benson Street
Southwest corner: Camden City Hall (1931).
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Washington Street
Northwest corner of Haddon Avenue and Washington Street — from the 1980s to 2011 the site of the Coriell Institute.
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Blaine Street
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Newton Avenue
In 1914 a runaway Haddonfield trolley jumped the track here, striking two men — see Camden at a Glance (Philadelphia Inquirer, October 22, 1914).
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Pine Street
The 800 block at Pine Street in the early 1950s. Sitting on the wall are Mr. Robison's nephews and niece — Tony, Alfred, and Sandra.
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & South 9th Street
Demolition of 940 Haddon Avenue
The demolition of 940 Haddon Avenue on August 9, 2012.
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Walnut Street
Looking east on Walnut Street from Haddon Avenue — July 29, 2011.
Intersection of Haddon Avenue, Chestnut Street & Park Boulevard
Intersection of Haddon Avenue, Line Street & Mt. Ephraim Avenue
Northeast corner — Fleck Plumbing & Heating Supplies Co., at Haddon Avenue, Line Street, and Mount Ephraim Avenue.
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Kaighn Avenue
Because this is a diagonal intersection, the numbered addresses are “off.” The last odd-numbered address on Haddon Avenue north of Kaighn Avenue is 1197; the last even-numbered address is 1228.
Lori's Records — 1244 Haddon Avenue
Albert Berul was associated with 1244 Haddon Avenue.
Owner Dona “Joe” Lumpkin bought the store on Haddon Avenue in 1976 and closed Lori's Records decades later. (John Ziomek/Courier-Post)
Lumpkin and several owners in Philadelphia founded R.A.G.E., a music cooperative, to bolster their buying power. “We got better pricing from the record companies,” he said. (John Ziomek/Courier-Post)
Intersection of Haddon Avenue, Mechanic Street & Bradley Avenue
Haddon Avenue meets Mechanic Street and Bradley Avenue here.
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Colton Street
Colton Street was also known as Old White Horse Pike and Venner Street.
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & White Horse Pike
Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Crescent Boulevard (Route 130)
Camden Courier-Post picture taken July 20, 1948 of the underpass being constructed. Traffic used to go from Haddon Avenue right across Route 130 into and out of Camden, but after the war traffic increased and the light at Haddon Avenue and Route 130 caused a bottleneck. An underpass was constructed and the traffic light removed. Dunkin' Donuts and Radio Shack later occupied the site of the gas station seen here; to the right of the gas station was a Ford dealer.
John Bonder, July 2010
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George Schatz
George Schatz (1903–1987) was a Camden entrepreneur who founded George's Auto Service in 1924 and grew it into one of South Jersey's largest and most modern automobile service businesses. He lived at 29 South 38th Street in East Camden from 1936.
Edwin S. Wirtz
Edwin Stanley Wirtz (1914–1975), son of Camden policeman Stanley R. Wirtz and grandson of Camden fireman James McDade, was appointed to the Camden Fire Department in October 1943 and served 22 years, retiring in October 1965 as an inspector in the Fire Marshal's office.
William E. Jaeckel
William E. "Pud" Jaeckel (1888–1961) joined the Camden Fire Department in 1920 and served over thirty years with Engine Company 9 at North 27th and Federal Streets in East Camden, retiring on pension in January 1951.
Edward S. Hyde
Edward S. Hyde rose through the Camden Police Department from patrolman to acting chief, served as a Camden County Freeholder, and died in 1930.
Santo DiMaggio
Santo DiMaggio (1918–1973) was a Camden firefighter who joined the department in January 1951 and served with Engine Company 3.
Diamond Street
Diamond Street is a one-block thoroughfare in Camden that runs south from Mount Vernon Street to Chestnut Street, west of Haddon Avenue. Many of its early residents were Polish immigrant families near St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church.
Cohn Alley
Cohn Alley is named after Edward N. Cohn, a prominent figure in Camden's real estate and construction circles during the 1880s and 1890s. The alley runs east from Haddon Avenue, between Kaighn and Liberty Streets, and never had any formal addresses.
Kaighn Avenue
One of Camden's major east-west streets, running from Kaighn's Point at the Delaware River east to Admiral Wilson Boulevard and the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, with block-by-block address histories from the 1860s through the early 2000s.
James F. "Soup" Campbell
James Francis "Soup" Campbell was born on December 24, 1897, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. He likely learned to play basketball at the Homestead YMCA under the guidance of Sandy Shields, a star of the 23rd Street Wanderers.
Cooper B. Hatch
Cooper Browning Hatch was a prominent citizen of Camden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born to Joseph and Mary Hatch in a farmhouse that now houses the Camden County Historical Society.
Starr Avenue
South Camden avenue.
Crefeld Street
Crefeld Street is a short street running east from 1540 Haddon Avenue that originally ran alongside the Convent of the Dominican Sisters of the Perpetual Rosary Shrine before becoming part of the Our Lady of Lourdes hospital grounds.
H. Roy Steele
Henry Roy Steele, widely recognized in Camden, New Jersey, for his basketball prowess and as a tavern owner, left a lasting legacy despite his passing in 1946.
Charles Hobart Corson
Charles Hobart Corson, commonly known as Hobart Corson , was born in Camden, New Jersey, on July 23, 1902, to W. Penn Corson and his wife, the former Catherine Kronenwetter.
Wite 60-Minute Cleaning Service
1177 Haddon Avenue, Camden, NJ Originally located at 2000 South 7th Street in Camden, the Wite 60 Minute Cleaning Service relocated to 1177 Haddon Avenue in the 1960s.
The Story of the Gottlieb Family
As Told by Dr. Stuart Gottlieb M.D. Since I grew up in Camden and worked with my dad at the family business on Mt Vernon St. from the time that I could hold a knife, about age 7 (1947),the site visit was particularly nostalgic.
Erie Street
Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.
Frank B. Hanna
Frank B. Hanna was born in New Jersey in 1894. He married Rachel Thomason around 1914, and they had a daughter, Elizabeth, the following year. By January 1920, the Hannas were residing at 5315 Locust Street in Philadelphia.
Ringold Street
Ringold Street was a one-block Camden street running from Line Street to Pine Street near Haddon Avenue, razed by the 1960s for Campbell Soup parking.
Bradley Avenue
Bradley Avenue runs east from 1400 Haddon Avenue to Euclid Avenue in the Parkside section of Camden.
Boyer Street
Boyer Street, also known as Boyer Court, was a half-block dead-end street running east from Nelson Street in South Camden. Eight brick homes on the north side were built in the early 1890s and demolished after World War II for industrial development.
Beideman Avenue
Beideman Avenue runs through Camden's Cramer Hill and East Camden sections, east of North 32nd Street, from the Delaware River south to Cleveland Avenue and from Lemuel Avenue through what was Westfield Acres to Westfield Avenue. Named for the Beideman family, notable landowners in northern Cramer Hill before its residential development.
Albert Court
Short court west of Haddon Avenue.
Laet's Lane
Short alley in Camden near Broadway.
Copewood Street
Copewood Street in Camden runs west of Haddon Avenue opposite Harleigh Cemetery to Davis Street; laid out in 1917, it has only one building that ever carried a Copewood Street address and is best known for providing access to the Ferry Avenue PATCO station.
Seward Street
One of Camden's lost streets.
Mount Ephraim Avenue
Mount Ephraim Avenue in Camden, NJ, dates to 1878 as the Mount Ephraim Turnpike toll road and was known as Border Street until the 2000s.
Atlantic Avenue
Atlantic Avenue runs east–west through the heart of Camden, three blocks south of Kaighn Avenue, from Front Street to Haddon Avenue. East of 7th Street it was and remains a mix of homes and commercial properties; the street crosses under I-676 and the elevated rail between 7th and 9th Streets before becoming primarily residential toward Haddon Avenue.
York Street
North Camden street.
Edward N. Cohn
Edward N. Cohn was born in 1832. On the 1870 U.S. Census, he reported his birthplace as Bohemia, while in the 1880 Census he listed it as Germany. It is likely he was born in a region that is now part of the Czech Republic.
Mickle Street
One of Camden's major east-west roads.
Convention Hall
Camden, NJ had two Convention Halls: the first on Memorial Avenue at Line Street, the second the former Third Regiment Armory on Mickle Street.
Langham Avenue
Langham Avenue runs south through Parkside from Walnut Street to Baird Avenue; in the decades after World War I it was home to many prominent members of Camden's Jewish community.
Liberty Street
One of Camden's older streets.
Pine Street
One of Camden's original tree-named streets.
Berkley Street
Berkley Street runs through South Camden from Buren Avenue to Haddon Avenue, named for Lord Berkeley, one of the original proprietors of colonial New Jersey. The section east of Broadway was once known as Hamilton Street until 1882.
Joseph Abarno
JOSEPH ARBANO was born in New York on August 11, 1895 to Domenic and Amerosa Arbano. Domenic Arbano had come to America in 1885 with his oldest son, James, in 1885. By 1917 the family had moved to 203 Royden Street in Camden NJ.
Arch Street
Arch Street ran from Delaware Avenue to North 5th Street between Federal and Market Streets in downtown Camden. Formerly known as Plum Street, it was home to Oetzel's Saloon, the Genova Cafe, the Collings Carriage Company, and the Camden Fire Department headquarters at 5th and Arch.
Firefighter Injured in Camden Blaze
A Camden City firefighter was hospitalized for heat-related issues after a one-alarm fire gutted a vacant former beauty salon at 940 Haddon Avenue on July 29, 2011.
Fire at 940 Haddon Avenue
On July 29, 2011, arsonists set fire to a vacant former nail salon at 940 Haddon Avenue in Camden's Parkside section. The building was gutted; one firefighter, Dom Barrett, was treated for heat-related issues amid 90-plus-degree temperatures.
A. N. Stollwerck and the Chocolate Factory
In September of 2009 Sandy White-Grear of the Haddon Township Historical Society sent the following article on the history of the A.N. Stollwerck chocolate factory which stood for many years at 1649-1651 Haddon Avenue .
For Cleaners, 'Time Caught Up With Us'
Changes in clothing, economy lead brothers to close Camden business By JEANNE RIDGWAY, Courier-Post Staff CAMDEN — The dry cleaning business isn't what it used to be, and David White, 76, and his brother Benjamin, 75, are finally calling it quits.
Humphries
Death notice for David W. Humphries of 113 South 35th Street, a member of the Camden Fire Department for 26 years, who died April 19, 1974; interment at Arlington Cemetery.
Bishop's Hospital Fund Oversubscribed $200,000
Camden Courier-Post - May 19, 1964 Ground for Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital was broken September 7, 1947. More than 2,500 persons saw Bishop Eustace turn the first spadeful of earth at the site on Haddon Avenue near Euclid .
Hospital Cases
Cooper Hospital cases from December 1956, including David Lenher, 21, of 290 Ablett Village, treated for a dog bite. Camden Courier-Post, December 11, 1956.
Three Children Rescued, Three Firemen Injured
A Courier-Post account of a State Street rescue and a Haddon Avenue gift-shop fire in which three firemen were injured.
Koerner Made Police Chief; Carroll, Mattison Promoted
Camden Courier-Post - November 29, 1949 Johnson , Garrity Move As Aaron Shifts Officers Capt. Gustav Koerner , youngest of six men holding that rank in the department, today was named Camden police chief.
Huge Gambling Joint Raided By State Police
Confiscate $38,700, 187 Men Are Nabbed Gamblers Felt Secure As They Thought Raid Wasn't Possible; Race Wires Are Being Traced By Police LAND FOR BUILDING SOLD BY TOWNSHIP Maple Shade's so-called "plumbing warehouse" proved to be just what residents suspected it to be - an elaborate gambling establishment.
Life Hereabouts by Charlie Humes
A nostalgic Charlie Humes column recalling Camden and Gloucester City's boxing heyday at the Armory on Haddon Avenue and the fighters — Roxie Allen, Mickey Blair, Eddie Chaney and dozens of others — who filled it.
Board No. 11 Calls 7 Men for Draft
Local Board No. 11 ordered seven men to report for Army induction on July 30, 1941, including John E. Wiley of 1061 Diamond Street and Leonard Auslander of Magnolia Avenue.