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Camden Home for Friendless Children

Streets

Carbine Street

Carbon Street, also known as Carbon Court and Carbine Street, ran south from 1010 Spruce Street in Camden, New Jersey; its homes were gone by 1947.

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Almshouse Infirmary - 1872
Hospitals

Camden County General Hospital

Besides Cooper , West Jersey , and Lady of Lourdes Hospital , Camden residents used other medical facilities over the years. Some, like the Municipal Hospital and Belleview Hospital, both long closed, were in the city limits.

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Friendless Child Stock Photo
Historical Accounts

Carol Sampson Feaster - Oral History

Q - Were you baptized and if so, in what religion? A - Protestant. It was a Presbyterian church. I was baptized in this church because I remember being dipped in the water. [ First Presbyterian Church - Ed.] Q- So you were older?

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Interview - AI Stock Photo
Historical Accounts

The Sampson Family Oral Interviews

With Herbert A. Sampson & Carol Sampson Feaster Herbert A. Sampson and Caroline Suzanne Sampson were born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to William Allen Sampson (1860-1937) and Helen Ida Petty (1887-1931).

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Bellevue Hospital - Unknown date
Historical Accounts

Bellevue Hospital - Tracking History

By Thomas A. Bergbauer , Retired Courier-Post Editor A few times in the past two months I have received several phone calls from readers asking if a hospital ever existed in North Camden next to the Ben Franklin Bridge and if so, what was its name.

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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.

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News Articles

Will of Charles S. Boyer Is Admitted to Probate

New Jersey Mirror - February 10, 1937 Contains Number of Bequests to Charities in Camden County The will of Charles S. Boyer , late of Moorestown, was admitted to probate by Surrogate George B. Bitting on Monday.

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Bathing Season Opens at Home for Friendless
News Articles

Children at Camden Home Have Big Time in Wading Pool

Bathing Place, Given by Citizens Officially Opened Four Youthful Charges, Left Motherless, to Return to Father Bathing in the backyard is a privilege of the children of the Camden Home for Friendless Children that is enjoyed by few of the other youngsters in the city.

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Cooper Mansion
News Articles

Pyne Poynt Plans All-Day 4th Party

Program to Have 'Something' on Continuously, Day and Night Plans for the thirty-third anniversary of the Pyne Poynt Athletic Association to be observed with an all ­day program at Pyne Poynt Park July 4 were discussed last night at a meeting in the Pyne Poynt Social Club, 929 North Fifth Street .

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News Articles

Removed to Hospitals

The police ambulance removed the following residents of South Camden to the hospitals late on Saturday afternoon: West Jersey Homeopathic - William Perry, aged 62 years, 1725 Fillmore Street ; Albert Biron, 24 years old, 1108 Baring Street .

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Camden Looks After Friendless Children - 1897-01-04
News Articles

Camden Looks After Friendless Children

Santa Visits Them Despite War, Many Churches Hold Christmas Services Camden's generous spirited citizens have responded to the appeal that was made by the Camden Home for Friendless Children , whose youthful inmates were threatened with having a very lean sort of a visit from Santa Claus.

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News Articles

Camden Home for Friendless Children Fund

Camden Democrat - July 18,1874 The Camden Home for Friendless Children —The committee on collections for the Building Fund, have great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of the following contributions: Wm. Groves, $50; sundries, by Wm.

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