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Ben Courter recalls the old one-horse dinkey of the Camden Horse Railroad Company on South Second street, and the night in the '90s when driver "Joe" Hackney and his horse carried a posse of armed Kaighn Point citizens up and down Second street chasing a runaway steer.
Harry J. Schaefer, a 22-year-old silk spinner, was shocked to death by a broken live wire on Tenth street above Market in Camden while spectators were afraid to free him.
South Camden news items from October 14, 1895: the Camden Horse Railroad Company took the summer cars off the Broadway line, R. H. Comey took out a permit for an addition to the dye works on Jefferson street, and Mayor Westcott gave two men five days for congregating at Eighth street and Kaighn avenue.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden County roundup of April 2, 1889: Mrs. Rebecca Wright, mother-in-law of City Recorder Braker, dies at 255 Kaighn avenue aged 85, and Walter Kelly is committed as the burglar who stole $339 and a gold watch from John Dugan of Front and Pearl streets.