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26th Street, originally called Union Street in the pre-annexation Pavonia section, runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden from the Delaware River to Bank and Mickle Streets. It was laid out before 1887 and renamed after Stockton Township was absorbed by Camden in 1899.
Samuel M. Shay was a prominent figure in Camden County during the early 20th century. Born around 1885 in New Jersey, he was appointed as Judge of the Common Pleas Court in Camden County by Governor Edwards in 1922.
The Antrim Hardware Company, founded by Elwood H. Antrim in 1889 on Federal Street in East Camden, NJ, operated nearly 100 years before closing.
Page 24 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: Elwood Antrim started a modest hardware business at 15th and Federal in 1889, and under his family's management Antrim's grew into the largest Mill Supply House in South Jersey, supplying shipyards with materials essential to the war effort.
Mrs. Elwood Antrim and her son, E. Hulings Antrim, watched fire sweep the Antrim Hardware Company at 1514-1516 Federal Street in June 1939; Mrs. Antrim declared it would be business as usual at Twenty-sixth and Federal streets.
A three-alarm fire swept the wholesale store of the Antrim Hardware Company at 1514 and 1516 Federal Street, damaging $100,000 in stock, injuring several firemen and menacing nearby homes and the Standard Oil plant across the street.
A burglar trying to break into the Elwood Antrim hardware store at 1541 Federal Street was frightened off by a burglar alarm; District Detectives Schlamm and Donnolley arrested a suspect, Walter Gibbs, at Seventeenth and Federal streets.