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Baring Street

Looking east on the 200 block of Burns Street the day after the Poet's Row fire

Streets

Burns Street

Burns Street was in Camden's Poet's Row neighborhood, named for Robert Burns. Three blocks of row homes built in the 1890s, all destroyed in the catastrophic Poet's Row fire of August 1972.

April 8, 2025·3 min read

Streets

Linden Street

Runs east from the Delaware River to North.

October 8, 2024·1 min read

Clare-Street-From-Division-Street-2012-03-19

Streets

Clare Street

Clare Street is a one-block thoroughfare in South Camden, running from Pine Street to Division Street. Originally called Pine Avenue, it was renamed Clare Street between 1878 and 1890, then later renamed Jesthroe Hunt Sr. Lane in honor of a Camden firefighter who passed away in 2005.

February 4, 2024·7 min read

Portrait of Rabbi Naftoly H. J. Riff in a brimmed hat, with beard and round glasses

People

Rabbi Naftoly Riff

Rabbi Naftoly H.J. Riff (1893-1976) led Congregation Sons of Israel on South 8th Street in Camden, New Jersey for nearly 50 years from the early 1920s.

November 21, 2021·17 min read

Baring Street from Kaighn Ave - 2004-03-14

Streets

Baring Street

Baring Street runs for one block in South Camden, from Chestnut Street south to Kaighn Avenue, between Marion Street and South 6th Street. The homes were built in 1888 by Wilson Ernst, one of Camden's most active builders of the 1880s.

October 8, 2021·1 min read

Fire at 1135 Baring Street

Camden Fire Department report: a two-story vacant row dwelling at 1135 Baring Street erupted in heavy smoke, requiring Engine 8, the Rescue Company, and two ladder companies to extinguish a rear-bedroom fire.

March 10, 2005·1 min read

Historical Accounts

My Camden Heritage

I am sitting in my den and close my eyes, I see the city as it was in my youth and recall the many people that crossed my path.

January 5, 2005·8 min read

Mrs. Levi String

Mrs. Levi String

Obituary for Mrs. Mary E. String, 76, of 1131 Baring Street, who died after weeks of illness; her husband summoned a police ambulance but she was dead on arrival at West Jersey Hospital.

July 28, 1941·1 min read

Hospital Cases — Camden Courier-Post, February 26, 1938

Hospital Cases

Hospital case log from Cooper and West Jersey hospitals including Irving Yerks, 9, of 1134 Baring Street, treated for a lacerated thumb.

February 26, 1938·2 min read

Joseph C. Jefferies

Joseph C. Jefferies

Obituary for Joseph C. Jefferies, 87, gold beater turned stationary engineer and 70-year Camden resident, who died at his home at 1152 Baring Street; survived by son Joseph S., daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Stauts, and Patrolman George Jefferies among four grandchildren.

February 19, 1938·1 min read

Camden Man Injured as Car Turns Turtle

Harry Katz, 25, of 1100 Baring Street suffered cuts to his legs and hands when his car turned over in a collision at Eighth Street and Atlantic Avenue.

February 1, 1933·1 min read

Removed to Hospitals

South Camden police ambulance log: Albert Biron, 24, of 1108 Baring Street, among residents transported to West Jersey and Cooper hospitals.

January 9, 1922·1 min read

Shocked to Death as He Oils Motor

Shocked to Death as He Oils Motor

Harry Lay, 38, of 1147 Baring Street, was electrocuted while oiling an electric motor at the Farr & Bailey oilcloth plant after a grounded wire made the motor "alive."

November 25, 1919·1 min read

Hold Woman's Assailant

Hold Woman's Assailant

Jacob Ballerstein, 47, of 1149 Baring Street, held in $200 bail for assault and battery on Mrs. Rebecca Hoffman after striking her with a broom near a saloon on Second Street and Kaighn Avenue.

September 11, 1918·1 min read

Funeral of John Thompson

Funeral of John Thompson, 79, longtime Sixth Ward resident and former grocer at Baring and Chestnut Streets, held at the home of his son-in-law Horace Bell at 1100 Baring Street.

December 11, 1914·1 min read

Cordelia M. Shields

Cordelia M. Shields

Death notice for Cordelia M. Shields, 3, daughter of Samuel H. R. and Mary H. Shields of 1115 Baring Street; funeral at the family home, burial at Old Camden Cemetery.

March 19, 1899·1 min read

Ella V. Stone

Death notice for Ella V. Stone, 26, wife of George G. Stone of 1142 Baring Street, Camden; died May 20, 1895, with funeral at the family home and burial at Evergreen Cemetery.

May 23, 1895·1 min read

Rev. Felicyan Szulborski

Rev. Felicyan Szulborski

Death notice for Rev. Felicyan Szulborski, 30, rector of St. Joseph's Polish Church on Broadway below Kaighn's Avenue, who died February 18, 1894, at his residence on Baring Street.

February 20, 1894·1 min read

William E. Eastlack

William E. Eastlack

Death notices for William E. Eastlack, 74, of 1141 Baring Street, Camden; funeral held Tuesday, February 6, 1894, with interment at New Camden Cemetery.

February 6, 1894·1 min read

David Babnew

Death notice for David Babnew, 15, son of Joseph and the late Elizabeth Babnew of 1153 Baring Street; died August 28, 1893, with services at Memorial M. P. Church and burial at New Camden Cemetery.

September 1, 1893·1 min read

Crime Runs Riot Over in Camden

Crime Runs Riot Over in Camden

Within hours, Camden saw a murder confession, an assault on 19-year-old Mary Morrison at her family's grocery at Kaighn Avenue and Baring Street, and two burglaries — one by chloroform.

July 29, 1893·3 min read

Engines in Collision

Engines in Collision

Frederick H. Kuebler, brakeman of 1103 Baring Street, was among three Pennsylvania Railroad workers injured when two engines collided due to a misplaced switch near Swanson Street.

September 12, 1888·1 min read