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William Stanley Ablett Village is a 306-unit public housing project at River Road and State Street in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, built by the Housing Authority of the City of Camden during World War II and named for a Camden soldier killed in action in France during World War I.
Ablett Village is a public housing project at State Street and River Road in Camden, constructed during World War II and operated by the Housing Authority of the City of Camden. Named after William Stanley Ablett.
Bartholomew A. Sheehan was born on December 18, 1907, to Jeremiah and Mary (McCarthy) Sheehan.
It all begins in a little row house (they call them townhouses now) on Grant Street in Camden NJ. I remember my mother telling me once that she and my father paid $3,000 for that house somewhere around 1952, when they married.
James Henry O'Brien was born around 1894. He served as a Yeoman 3rd Class in the United States Navy during World War I and became active in veterans and civic affairs in Camden, NJ, after the war.
New Camden Cemetery, at Mount Ephraim and Ferry Avenues in Camden, NJ, opened in 1887 and holds veterans' plots and historic Jewish sections.
Frank J. Suttill, born on September 8, 1893, in Pennsylvania, made significant contributions to Camden County's political and civic life. His family relocated to Camden County in 1902, marking the beginning of his long association with the area.
John Pomponio recalls living at 305 Ablett Village from 1955 to 1967, with memories of friends, baseball behind the community center, and eventually enlisting in the Army in 1967.
A 2008 Courier-Post report on drug dealing, three unsolved homicides and a proposed trespassing ordinance at Ablett Village, with residents largely unwilling to speak on the record. Camden Courier-Post, May 5, 2008.
That center grate was also a good place to sneak a peek after you went to bed to see who was gathering in the dining room.
Death notice for Minnie Roth Wishnoff, 77, of 225 Ablett Village, Camden — wife of the late Samuel Wishnoff. Camden Courier-Post, January 25, 1972.
A December 4, 1957 Camden Courier-Post list of fire alarms, including a fire at 330 Larch Street.
Obituary of John Melfi Sr., 74, of 24 Ablett Village, Camden — born in Italy, Camden resident for 42 years, maintenance man for Eavenson and Levering. Camden Courier-Post, December 11, 1956.
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.
The newly organized Auxiliary Police Department of Ablett Village staged the project's first Fourth of July celebration, with races, donated prizes and a pony for the children. Camden Courier-Post, July 6, 1953.
Camden Housing Authority member Frank J. Suttill publicly doubted officials' explanation that weather, not foundation settlement, caused numerous cracks in the newly built Ablett Village buildings. Camden Courier-Post, November 1942.
Excavation began at River Road and State Street for a $1,677,000, 306-family defense housing project to be known as William Stanley Ablett Village. Camden Courier-Post, June 11, 1942.
The Camden Housing Authority awarded four contracts totaling $1,224,841 for 306 homes on the Moro Phillips tract, to be known as the William Stanley Ablett Village. Camden Courier-Post, April 25, 1942.
A March 1942 account from "Housing in Camden" of how the Camden Housing Authority's third public housing project — a $1,409,000 development designated N.J. 10-2 — was funded, and how the rule was set that it be named for a Camden native killed in action.
The Camden Housing Authority announced U.S. Housing Authority approval of a $1,566,000 defense housing project of 306 units on the south side of East State Street between Cooper Creek and River Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, January 17, 1942.