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Louis Street runs between Haddon Avenue and Mount Ephraim Avenue, from Mount Vernon Street south to Sheridan Street. Primarily residential with many corner businesses, it passes Whitman Park and was devastated by the crack epidemic of the 1980s.
Arthur Cuellen Batten (1904–1972), known to his fellow firefighters as Artie, joined the Camden Fire Department on March 4, 1927 and served until his retirement on February 28, 1969, rising to captain of Rescue Company 1 and acting battalion chief. He lived for many years at 1132 North 22nd Street in Cramer Hill and invented the un-patented ring cutter used by the rescue company to remove finger jewelry.
History of the Engel family of Camden — Julius and Mary Engel, immigrants from Slovakia and Hungary who settled in South Camden, and their son Frank Engel, who shot and wounded Howard Unruh during the 1949 Cramer Hill "Walk of Death."
Physician, pharmacist, and Camden's first Medical Inspector; later Health Director and chief school physician who shaped public-school health care in Camden for a generation.
Diamond Street is a one-block thoroughfare in Camden that runs south from Mount Vernon Street to Chestnut Street, west of Haddon Avenue. Many of its early residents were Polish immigrant families near St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church.
City directory records and newspaper accounts for 10th Street, one of Camden’s longest thoroughfares, running from State Street in North Camden through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park to Morgan Village, 1870s–1970s.
Edward Schlorer was born in Baden, Germany, in 1860. He came to Camden in 1889 to join his younger brother, Adam Schlorer , who had established a meat business at Second and Arch Streets .
One of Camden's major east-west streets, running from Kaighn's Point at the Delaware River east to Admiral Wilson Boulevard and the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, with block-by-block address histories from the 1860s through the early 2000s.
Josiah Sage was born in New Jersey in May 1862, according to the 1900 U.S. Census. His older sister, Hannah, married Charles Henry Peters in the late 1860s. By 1880, Sage was single and working as an oil cloth painter.
Alexander Wilson was born in Pennsylvania in 1847, according to the 1870 Census. By that time, he lived in Camden's South Ward, worked as a hotel waiter, and boarded with Eliza Williams. He was single at the time.
Daniel A. Gottlieb was born in Russia on August 18, 1882, and immigrated to America in 1890. After marrying Fannie, the couple lived for a time in Pennsylvania, where they welcomed daughter Essie in 1907 and son James in 1909.
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.
Boyer Street, also known as Boyer Court, was a half-block dead-end street running east from Nelson Street in South Camden. Eight brick homes on the north side were built in the early 1890s and demolished after World War II for industrial development.
Beckett Street, named for Henry and Mary Beckett who owned land in South Camden around 1853, originally ran from Front Street to West Street. After 1947 the eastern portion was demolished for an industrial building; today it runs only from South 3rd Street to West Street.
Baxter Street (formerly Newton Street and locally known as "Hog Alley") ran from South 7th Street to Mount Ephraim Avenue in South Camden, notorious for decades as a hub of illegal activity; largely demolished, the 700 block survives as an overgrown alley.
Maurice Street, formerly Ann Street, runs south from Mount Vernon Street to Kaighn Avenue in Camden, site of the Wesley A.M.E. Church at Sycamore Street.
Alder Street, also known as Ann Street, was a small street in South Camden between South 9th and South 10th Streets. Both blocks were obliterated by the construction of Interstate Route I-676.
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.
Sycamore Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets, originally running east from Front Street to Haddon Avenue; its intersections at 7th, 8th and Louis Streets were hubs for different ethnic and cultural communities.
Locust Street ran south from Beckett Street to Mechanic Street between South 2nd and South 3rd Streets in Camden; its 700 block was known as Oak Street until about 1883 and its 600 block as John Street in the 1870s. Homes and businesses disappeared block by block after World War II, and the last structure, at 1128 Locust, was razed after a fire in 2010.
Cox Street ran west from 1119 South 2nd Street for about half a block to a dead end, roughly opposite Sycamore Street; it first appeared in City Directories in 1890 and was renamed Sycamore Street around 1922, then erased after World War II as part of a redevelopment plan.
This map appears to have been created sometime between 1899 and 1920.
Haddon Avenue is one of Camden's oldest roads, dating to at least 1792 as a bridle path and incorporated as the Haddonfield & Camden Turnpike in 1839. It runs southeast from Federal Street to the city limits toward Collingswood, Haddon Township, and Haddonfield.
The Sixth Ward Republican Club was active in Camden as early as the 1890s through at least 1947. Richard J. Richardson was the club president for several years around the turn of the century.
The Broadway Trust Company, a bank built before World War I at 938-944 Broadway in Camden, New Jersey, operated until shortly after the 1929 crash.
Ralph W. Wescott, born in New Jersey in 1883 to John W. and Frances Oatman Wescott, was a prominent figure in Camden's legal and civic spheres.
Market Street in Camden was likely named because it linked via the ferry to Market Street in Philadelphia, which it follows on the map; no known market existed on it. Includes a circa 1893 photo looking east from N. 2nd 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.
EUGENE F. ALSTON was born October 16, 1919 in Camden to Richard Alston and his wife, the former Dolly Robinson. His father had been born in 1891 in Henderson, North Carolina.
GEORGE OWENS ADDISON , the son of William H. Addison and his wife, the former Pheobe Ann Drew, was born in Gloucester County, New Jersey on December 4, 1853.
From South Jersey: A History 1624 - 1924 CHARLES ANGELO ACETO - Enterprise, industry, originality, and determination that overcomes all obstacles to success are characteristic of many young men from European countries who have sought this country for opportunity, and Charles Angelo Aceto affords a conspicuous example of one of these young men, who, in spite of handicaps, has entered into prosperity solely through his own efforts.
Charles Angelo Aceto was born in Italy on April 16, 1891 and came to America with his father in 1900. He threw himself into his education and into becoming proficient in the English language.
Fifth Street was one of Camden's original streets, running south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Newton Avenue to just west of Pyne Point in North Camden.
Camden Fire Department response to a fire at 1227 North 28th Street in Cramer Hill on September 19, 2011.
Camden Courier-Post - January 4, 2008 By Thomas A. Bergbauer , for the Courier-Post Our friend in Seminole, Fla., is at it again. Camden native Robert A. Stanton has published another book about his beloved city.
Martin DiCarlo's Camden Courier-Post column on the Iannelli family: Camden firemen Frank Iannelli and his sons Leonard and Carmen all died of heart attacks on the job, in 1942, 1964 and 1975.
Four Camden firemen were injured when their engine collided with a tractor-trailer at 2nd and Market streets while answering a false alarm; the truck driver was charged with failure to yield to a fire apparatus.
William J. Porter, 26, and Howard James, 25, linked by Camden police with 10 burglaries in six weeks, were held in $25,000 bail each by Municipal Judge Marino. Among the jobs James admitted was a break-in at a grocery at 635 Carman Street.
Burglars broke into three Camden businesses, including the 705 Bar on Chestnut Street and Paramount Billiards at 16 S. Broadway, and three Pennsauken homes over a December 1957 weekend, netting nearly $600; two men were held for breaking into Martini's Service Station at 4th and Main streets.
Three Drummond children of 912 Chestnut Street drowned in the Cooper River at Camden County Park while fishing; two more children died at Sea Isle City the same day. Camden firemen including Wesley Faust worked the recovery.
Camden Courier-Post — February 23, 1954 A Barrington man went to county jail for 30 days after Judge Dzick ruled him guilty of passing worthless check for rental of an auto.
Angel M. Rodriguez, 35, of 300 Penn St., and Fernando Reyes, 52, of 708 Carman St., were beaten in January 1954; Rodriguez's car was stolen and Reyes said he was robbed of $150.
Kaighn School Razed; Blazes Set in Church, Unoccupied House Police today are investigating the possibility that three fires Wednesday within a quarter-mile area inside of three hours and 46 minutes were the work of a firebug.
Eight Camden marriage licenses published April 2, 1952, including Otto Souak of Clementon and Veneria Cinelli of 344 Dudley Street.
Camden Courier-Post - August 12, 1950 Five recently-appointed policemen and four firemen were sworn in today by Public Safety Commissioner Aaron in his City Hall office.
Camden Courier-Post - August 1, 1950 Replacements Listed For 8 on Pensions, One Resignation Director of Public Safety Aaron this afternoon announced the appointment of five new patrolmen and four new firemen. All are War II veterans.
Four Camden police officers and four firemen won approval of pensions under the mandatory age-65 retirement law in July 1950, to retire Aug. 31; also approved was a widow's pension for Mrs. Carrie Bean, whose husband, Patrolman Howard Bean, had died June 8.
Louis Bumbrey, 56, of 906 South Eighth Street, was fined $100 for maintaining a disorderly house and sent to county jail on a charge of possessing untaxed alcohol after a January 1, 1950 raid on a bootblack parlor at 725 Kaighn Avenue.
Thirty-seven candidates passed the Civil Service test for Camden firefighter in December 1949 — among them brothers Santo and John DiMaggio of 319 Beckett Street.
Page 62 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: compliments of the St. Joseph A. A. and of Wm. Schlorer & Sons at 8th and Chestnut Sts., Kline & Gallimore at 518 Federal Street, headquarters for Stetson hats at $5.00 to $20.00, and Jacob Naden's gifts, furniture and toys at 24th and Federal Sts.