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On the night of August 23, 1972, a fire in the abandoned John R. Evans factory at North 2nd and Erie Streets spread through Poet's Row, destroying Burns Street, Milton Street, and the north side of Byron Street in a ten-alarm catastrophe that displaced hundreds of families.
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.
Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.
On the night of August 23, 1972, a fire that started in the former John R. Evans Co. leather factory at North 2nd and Erie Streets destroyed Milton Street, Burns Street, and the north side of the 200 block of Byron Street — the complete obliteration of Camden's Poet's Row neighborhood.
Byron Street was part of North Camden's Poet's Row neighborhood, a working-class district whose streets were named for English literary figures. The 200, 300, and 500 blocks developed in the 1890s; the 200 block's north side was destroyed in the catastrophic Poet's Row fire of August 1972.
Poet's Row, the Byron, Burns and Milton Street homes in North Camden built in the 1890s and largely destroyed by a catastrophic 1972 fire.
Vincent Ariel Tydeman was born in New Jersey on August 24, 1883, to Edmund and Sarah Tydeman, who emigrated from England to the U.S. in 1878 with their nine children. The Tydemans welcomed another child, Florence, just before the 1880 census.
Six Camden properties on Newton Avenue, Segal Street, Carpenter Street, 250 Burns Street, and Kaighn Avenue were ordered demolished as unfit for habitation and fire hazards.
Emergency room cases at Cooper Hospital and West Jersey Hospital on February 26, 1938, including Marie Cahill, 5, of 2168 Berwick Street, treated for brush burns on her hand.
Cooper Hospital and West Jersey Hospital emergency cases for February 26, 1938, including John Cool Jr., 7, of 218 Burns Street with a lacerated thumb.
Carl Barker was sentenced to state prison for 1½ to four years, while Adolph Lemm Jr. of 221 Burns Street received 60 days in county jail for the larceny of paint from a Federal Street store.
Carl Barker and Adolf Lemm Jr. of 211 Burns Street were arraigned on charges of breaking into a Federal Street paint store on New Year's Day and stealing paint brushes.
Jesse Brown stabbed in a quarrel on Taylor Avenue; his alleged assailant caught on Camden Bridge after Jennie Worona of 208 Burns Street told police where the knife was thrown.
Mrs. Harry Dounch of 218 Burns Street died in Burlington while on her way to visit her sister, after being taken in by a family who found her stricken on the street.
Twin brothers Russell and Albert Weller Jr., 5, and their baby sister Doris, 9 months, were rescued from a shed fire at 253 Burns Street by their father and great-grandmother Mrs. Mary Havlick, 74.
Leo O'Brien, 30, of 213 Burns Street was jailed for 30 days after repeatedly creating a disturbance near his home despite being taken home three times by detectives.
Two Camden youths held in $2500 bail each on charges of breaking and entering 208 Burns Street and stealing revolvers.
A bench warrant was issued for Herman Max Schwartz of 214 Byron Street after police seized a 50-gallon still at his home.
Local briefs from Camden including Julius Narshinski, 40, of 214 Burns Street treated at Cooper Hospital for heat exhaustion, a drowning in the Delaware, and a fatal accident at the Gibbstown powder plant.
The body of four-year-old Henry May Jr. of 208 Burns Street was found in a pond at North Second Street by John Dyer and Policeman Isaac Toy, after a collie dog led them to the spot.
John Ferick was held on bail by Mayor Westcott, charged with the larceny of lead pipe from an empty house at 238 Burns Street.