Streets
Auburn Street
Auburn Street is a small street that runs from Broadway to South Sixth Street between Benson and Washington Streets. All 26 homes were seized by eminent domain and demolished in 2001.
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Alpha Club
Streets
Hale Street
Hale Street ran north-south from Central Avenue to Ferry Avenue in Camden; its four homes and the street itself were razed in the 1970s for the I-676 North-South Freeway.
People
E. Allen Hughes
E. Allen Hughes embarked on a distinguished 36-year career as a reporter and copy editor with the Camden Courier-Post newspapers, commencing in 1928.
Bars and Clubs
The Alpha Club
The ALPHA CLUB was a social club that consisted mostly of young men from South Camden in the years prior to World War I. The club appears to have organized in 1906, and was active as late as 1917.
News Articles
Triplets' Mother Happy
A 1910 Philadelphia Inquirer report on the Alpha Club raising $500 for Katie Macks, the Camden widow at 1702 Hale Street raising one-year-old triplets after her husband's death.
News Articles
Blackened the Faces of Bride and Groom
Members of the Alpha Club hazed two fellow members who married, including Charles M. Alcott Jr. of 584 Auburn Street. The club blackened the faces of the newlyweds on their return from their wedding tours.