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Armstrong Cork Works

1909 and 1911 Kossuth Street, May 29, 2012
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Kossuth Street

Kossuth Street ran south through South Camden from Van Hook Street to the railroad tracks; named for the Hungarian revolutionary Louis Kossuth, much of it was razed in the 1950s for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Manor and Chelton Terrace public housing projects.

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Philadelphia Inquirer, December 23, 1914 — Louis Gray Burned at Armstrong Cork Works
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Louis Gray Burned

Louis Gray, 17, of 1806 Kossuth Street was badly burned by blazing oil at the Armstrong Cork Works.

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