Tag: Alabama Road

  • Fairview – Tracking History

    Fairview – Tracking History

    By Thomas A. Bergbauer, Retired Courier-Post Editor The Fairview section of Camden was the mother of all planned communities. It was born at the beginning of the “war to end all wars.” In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, the New York Shipbuilding Corp. on Broadway, owned by the American International Corp.…

  • New Jersey Road

    New Jersey Road

    NEW JERSEY ROAD runs from South Collings Road southwards until it ends, opposite 1244 South Merrimac Road, three blocks west of Alabama Road, in the Fairview section of Camden. It serves as a connector between South Collings Road and South Merrimac Road, as does its sister street, New Hampshire Road. Neither street has any addresses…

  • Robert E. Gibson Obituary

    Camden Courier-Post – March 5, 2004 GIBSON, ROBERT E. Of Camden, NJ on March 3, 2004, age 62. Retired superintendent of Water and Waste Water Operation for the City of Camden. He is survived by 2 children Mia D. Gibson and Thomas P. Gibson; a daughter-in-law, Minique Gibson; 4 grand-children, Samuel D. Gibson, Ariel Robinson,…

  • Babies Born in April Get B&L Stock Shares

    Camden Courier-Post – June 10, 1933 The first payment on one share of stock in the Kearsarge Building and Loan Association has been offered to parents of the following children born in the Fourteenth ward during the month of April: