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Harry E. Harker of Blackwood, NJ served as a Private in Company C, 133rd Infantry Regiment, 34th Infantry Division. He was killed April 20, 1944 during the defense of the Anzio beachhead in Italy and is buried at Beverly National Cemetery, Beverly, NJ.
Eleventh Street ran north from Market Street through to Pearl Street. Over time, North 11th Street was erased block by block, until only a short segment between Penn and Linden Streets survives. South 11th Street is a connecting road with no residential addresses.
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.
Orris W. Smith was born in Camden on September 8, 1920, to Edward and Catherine Smith. The 1924 City Directory lists the family at 1113 Carpenter Street .
Carpenter Street was a narrow residential street in North Camden, running from North 8th Street to Cooper Street. Most of it was destroyed in the 1940 Hollingshead Factory fire and later razed for Interstate 676; today only the 800 block remains.
Richman Alley, documented in the 1946 Camden City Directory, was situated "from Cooper to Carpenter , East of North 11th ." Regrettably, this area, as depicted in the maps below, was cleared to facilitate the construction of Interstate 676.
Berkley Street runs through South Camden from Buren Avenue to Haddon Avenue, named for Lord Berkeley, one of the original proprietors of colonial New Jersey. The section east of Broadway was once known as Hamilton Street until 1882.
Police Judge Garfield Pancoast sentenced Emil Hatter to 50 days and two men found in his speakeasy — including Edward Mackay of 531 Ray Street — to 60 days each after they denied buying drinks there.
Camden Daily Courier - November 15, 1890 Many Houses Now Being Erected Camden builders do not seem to be deterred by the fear of financial panic or an idea that the McKinley bill presages disaster in business.
Saloon keeper John Meiler of Eleventh and Carpenter Streets, Camden, was tried and convicted for selling liquor to minors and sentenced to ten days in jail.