The 300 block of Hillside Avenue runs through East Camden between the intersections of Eva Street and Ella Street. The records below are drawn from Camden city directories, 1927–1969, supplemented by photographs and newspaper clippings.
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Intersection of Eva Street and Hillside Avenue
View of the intersection of Eva Street and Hillside Avenue in East Camden, New Jersey.Looking down Eva Street from Hillside Avenue — photograph taken July 7, 2006.
305 Hillside Avenue
305 Hillside Avenue, circa 2000.
Hillside Market — 306 Hillside Avenue
The Hillside Market — "Quality Meats and Groceries" — operated at 306 Hillside Avenue, run by Irvin Lang. The advertisement below appeared in the Camden High School Yearbook in February 1940.
Hillside Market — Quality Meats and Groceries, 306 Hillside Avenue. Irvin Lang. Camden High School Yearbook advertisement, February 1940.306–308 Hillside Avenue, July 7, 2006.
318 Hillside Avenue — Twelfth Ward Women's Republican Club
George H. Bradbury lived at 347 Hillside Avenue. In April 1928 he was the driver in one of two collisions at the same intersection, reported in Crash Follows Crash at Same Intersection.
348 Hillside Avenue — Rae B. Keene
Rae B. Keene lived at 348 Hillside Avenue. His 1957 obituary appeared in the Camden Courier-Post.
Intersection of Ella Street and Hillside Avenue
View of the intersection of Ella Street and Hillside Avenue in East Camden, New Jersey.Looking down Ella Street from Hillside Avenue, East Camden. Photograph taken July 7, 2006.Looking down Ella Street from Hillside Avenue — photographs taken July 7, 2006.
300 Block Occupants
City directory records, 1927–1969
305 Hillside Avenue
305 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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1929
Mrs. Mary Kopschina
1947
David F. Fiedler
306 Hillside Avenue
306 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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1929
Ellsworth C. Marcoe — grocery
1933
Mrs. Anna Redlus — grocery; Irvin Lang — grocery (Hillside Market)
1947
Joseph Chevalier — confectionary
1969
Adeline Chevalier
308 Hillside Avenue
308 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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1929–1947
Walter Christy — Camden Police Department
318 Hillside Avenue
318 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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1929–1947
Carlton M. Harris
1969
Wm. E. Godfrey
325 Hillside Avenue
325 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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name↕
1929
William Broughton
1947
Herbert Bowley
326 Hillside Avenue
326 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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name↕
1929
Robert I. Wilson
1947–1969
Paul C. Edwards — Camden Police Department
334 Hillside Avenue
334 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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name↕
1947
No Listing
1965
For sale — built 1950; storm windows, fireplace (stone), tile bath
1969
C. Bullock Jr.
340 Hillside Avenue
340 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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1947
No Listing
1969
R.L. Clark
347 Hillside Avenue
347 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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1928–1947
George H. Bradbury
1969
Charles A. Kocher Jr. — Camden Police Department
348 Hillside Avenue
348 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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1927–1929
John H. Haas — John & Henrietta Haas; John Haas, Etta Haas, Walter Haas
1934
William Strang
1947–1957
Rae B. Keene — Rae B. & Maud W. Keene; Thaddeus Keene, Albert Keene
1969
Mrs. Mildred Wood
350 Hillside Avenue
350 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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1927
Destroyed by fire
352 Hillside Avenue
352 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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name↕
1927
Destroyed by fire
354 Hillside Avenue
354 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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name↕
1947
No Listing
1965
For sale — built 1957; lot 60' x 100', hardwood floors, automatic heat
1969
William L. Murray
355 Hillside Avenue
355 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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name↕
1947
No Listing
1969
M. Collier Jr.
364 Hillside Avenue
364 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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name↕
1947
No Listing
1969
Frank Abbott Jr.
365 Hillside Avenue
365 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1927–1969
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1947
No Listing
1969
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The 400 block of Hillside Avenue in East Camden. The records below are drawn from Camden city directories, 1929–1969, with photographs of 420 Hillside Avenue, longtime home of Alfred R. Pierce, who later served as Mayor of Camden.
420 Hillside Avenue — Alfred R. Pierce
Alfred R. Pierce, later Mayor of Camden, lived at 420 Hillside Avenue from the late 1950s through the 1960s.
Alfred R. Pierce, 420 Hillside Avenue, late 1950s–1960s.420 Hillside Avenue, 2009.
400 Block Occupants
City directory records, 1929–1969
417 Hillside Avenue
417 Hillside Avenue — City directory records, 1929–1969
John McKay was born on October 22, 1891, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Malcolm and Mary McKay. Along with his brothers Malcolm, Thomas, and Stanley, John grew up at 362 East Indiana Avenue in Philadelphia, as recorded in the 1900 Census.
Obituary for Rae B. Keene, 71, a retired janitor who formerly lived at 348 Hillside Avenue in East Camden and was a member of the Calvary Bible Protestant Church.
The Twelfth Ward Women's Republican Club was organized at 318 Hillside Avenue in East Camden, electing Miss Dorothy D. McIlvaine as its first president.
Two automobile accidents at the same East Camden intersection within minutes of each other injured three people, including Dr. A. Lincoln Sherk and a ten-year-old girl struck by a car driven by a resident of 347 Hillside Avenue.
