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Sylvan Street runs west from South 10th Street for three and one-half blocks, ending a short distance west of South 7th Street, one block south of Woodland Avenue and three blocks north of Morgan Street in Camden, New Jersey.
John C. Voll Jr. (1900-1979) was born in Camden and served the Camden Fire Department for 40 years, entering the department on January 15, 1925 and retiring on December 1, 1965. He lived his later years at 2737 Garfield Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden.
Joseph Xavier Voll (1925–1945) of Camden, NJ served as a Fireman First Class in the United States Navy and was one of the original crew of the USS Caswell (AKA-72). He was killed in an accident at Riverton, New Jersey on January 12, 1945, less than a week short of his 20th birthday, and is buried at Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly, NJ.
Eleventh Street ran north from Market Street through to Pearl Street. Over time, North 11th Street was erased block by block, until only a short segment between Penn and Linden Streets survives. South 11th Street is a connecting road with no residential addresses.
Edward Schlorer was born in Baden, Germany, in 1860. He came to Camden in 1889 to join his younger brother, Adam Schlorer , who had established a meat business at Second and Arch Streets .
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.
Olive Street is a short, one-block street in Camden's Morgan Village, running west from South 8th Street to Morgan Boulevard and listed in city directories since 1878.
Josiah Sage was born in New Jersey in May 1862, according to the 1900 U.S. Census. His older sister, Hannah, married Charles Henry Peters in the late 1860s. By 1880, Sage was single and working as an oil cloth painter.
Abraham Lincoln James, commonly known as A. L. James or A. Lincoln James, was a career officer with the Camden Police Department, serving for 40 years.
Canterbury Circle runs south into the Canterbury Apartments from Olive Street, between South 8th Street and Morgan Boulevard, in the Morgan Village section of Camden.
Douglass Street is a narrow, one-block thoroughfare in South Camden running south from Spruce Street to Cherry Street, between South 7th and South 8th Streets. Originally known as Lincoln Avenue, it was renamed after the 1899 annexation of the Town of Stockton.
Carpenter Street was a narrow residential street in North Camden, running from North 8th Street to Cooper Street. Most of it was destroyed in the 1940 Hollingshead Factory fire and later razed for Interstate 676; today only the 800 block remains.
A small street running from 708 North 2nd Street east to North 8th Street, between State and Vine Streets, in Camden, New Jersey.
Gold Street was a small, secluded street in Camden, New Jersey, between South 8th Street and Silver Street, south of Line Street. First appearing in the 1888 City Directory, its six houses had dwindled to two occupied addresses by 1929, and the street vanished from the records after the 1930 Census.
Litwin Brothers Market, a family grocery at 801 Elm Street in North Camden founded by the Litwin family, served the neighborhood from 1941 into the 2000s.
Bulson Street runs east from Broadway to South 11th Street alongside the railroad tracks, named after 19th-century farmer Gilbert Bulson. At one time the tracks were at street level; in modern times the overpass has been known as "the hump."
Bridge Avenue was one of Camden's most notable thoroughfares, lying between Federal and Mickle Streets. By 1947 only the block east of South 8th Street remained, and that too has long since vanished.
Beckett Street, named for Henry and Mary Beckett who owned land in South Camden around 1853, originally ran from Front Street to West Street. After 1947 the eastern portion was demolished for an industrial building; today it runs only from South 3rd Street to West Street.
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.
Sycamore Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets, originally running east from Front Street to Haddon Avenue; its intersections at 7th, 8th and Louis Streets were hubs for different ethnic and cultural communities.
Bailey Street appears to be named for real estate developer William T. Bailey, who was responsible for building rows of homes between North 5th and North 6th Streets on State, Grant, Bailey and York Streets.
Reprinted from the series of stories of Camden's earlier days, under the title Sixty Years in Camden County - Gosh! by Will Paul, appearing in The Community news, of Merchantville, NJ.
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.
Main Street is a diagonal street in North Camden running southeast from State and Point Streets. The 1878 city directory listed it as starting at the Vine Street Ferry.
Eighth Street runs south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Morgan Boulevard to Pyne Point in North Camden.
The Broadway Trust Company, a bank built before World War I at 938-944 Broadway in Camden, New Jersey, operated until shortly after the 1929 crash.
Rabbi Naftoly H.J. Riff (1893-1976) led Congregation Sons of Israel on South 8th Street in Camden, New Jersey for nearly 50 years from the early 1920s.
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.
Baring Street runs for one block in South Camden, from Chestnut Street south to Kaighn Avenue, between Marion Street and South 6th Street. The homes were built in 1888 by Wilson Ernst, one of Camden's most active builders of the 1880s.
Joseph A. Alcorn (1919-1958) was a Camden, New Jersey native and US Marine Corps veteran who founded Alcorn Motor Sales on Federal Street in East Camden.
My father, Joseph A. Alcorn , had a used car dealership on the corner of 15th and Federal Streets . He started the business with Skip Gardner as his partner in the late 40's and bought Skip out during that same period.
Camden police questioned suspects in the firebombing of the William Knoth Sr. home at 976 Woodland Avenue, where William Knoth Jr. and his mother, Martha, escaped serious injury when a bottle of gasoline or kerosene exploded in the living room.
Camden birth notices from the Camden Courier-Post, November 9, 1967, listing eight births, including Deborah Dee to Mr. and Mrs. David Lavender of 128 Boyd Street.
Fire Capt. Leonard Garbrecht of Engine Company 3 was hospitalized with head injuries when the door of a dry cleaning tumbler blew off during a fire at the Mechanics Overall Service plant, 2201 S. 8th Street. Camden Courier-Post, December 23, 1958.
William J. Porter, 26, and Howard James, 25, linked by Camden police with 10 burglaries in six weeks, were held in $25,000 bail each by Municipal Judge Marino. Among the jobs James admitted was a break-in at a grocery at 635 Carman Street.
Municipal Judge Marino gave six-month jail sentences to two men for theft of an automobile battery and $5 worth of gasoline; Sgt. Earl Wright said one was arrested taking the gas.
Cooper and West Jersey hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 3, 1956, including Rita Procacci of 1125 South 3rd Street, treated for burns of the right hand.
Births at Cooper Hospital to the Gattone family of 812 Tulip Street and the Hughes family of 2258 South 8th Street, and Frank Gizelbach of 3044 Fenwick Road recovering at home after weeks in the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Camden Courier-Post, February 1, 1954.
Joseph Johnson of 313 North 11th Street and Miss Shirley Ann Kee of South 8th Street to wed at Masonic Temple, 761 Walnut Street, with Rev. Lloyd A. Burrus officiating.
Pilot William A. Kreusser, 26, of 873 Fairview Street survived when his light monoplane tore down power lines and crashed in front of 843 Sylvan Street in South Camden on September 30, 1953.
Camden Courier-Post - May 21, 1953 High Mass for Dominick J. Persiani , 35, will be sung Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Sacred Heart R. C. Church . Relatives in the funeral home of Joseph A. Falco, 1020 S. 4th st. , where friends may call Friday night.
City officials will be asked to erect a fence along Delaware river between Seventh and Eighth streets in an effort to prevent children from playing near the water.
Louis Bumbrey, 56, of 906 South Eighth Street, was fined $100 for maintaining a disorderly house and sent to county jail on a charge of possessing untaxed alcohol after a January 1, 1950 raid on a bootblack parlor at 725 Kaighn Avenue.
Page 65 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: a "Best Wishes from A Friend" greeting and advertisements for John J. Conley plumbing at 3008 Alabama Road, Hathaway Lodge at 5 Points, Keating's at 20th St. and River Ave., realtor James J. Scarduzio at 1809 Broadway, Bobby's Auto Parts, realtor Edmund J. Lenny of Fairview, and the Camden Iron & Metal Co.
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.
Page 62 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: compliments of the St. Joseph A. A. and of Wm. Schlorer & Sons at 8th and Chestnut Sts., Kline & Gallimore at 518 Federal Street, headquarters for Stetson hats at $5.00 to $20.00, and Jacob Naden's gifts, furniture and toys at 24th and Federal Sts.
Camden Courier-Post - July 1, 1941 William Boyle, 19, of Ashland, and his grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Aubacher, 63, of Osage, were pulled through the door of their car, shown above, yesterday after a crash at Eighth street and Central avenue .
Courier-Post, December 26, 1939: Camden police doubted the "brawl" explanation for the fatal shooting of Eighth ward political worker Andrew Scarduzio in a Bellmawr taproom.
Camden Chief of Police Arthur Colsey, a 27-year veteran of the department, died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home at 2937 Stevens Street. The Courier-Post traced his career from merchant at Ninth and Market streets and Second Ward councilman to patrolman in 1912 and permanent chief in 1934.