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Bergen Avenue runs through the Cramer Hill section of Camden from Cleveland Avenue north to Farragut Avenue near the Delaware River, likely named for Martin V. Bergen or Christopher A. Bergen, prominent Camden legal figures in the late 1800s.
Thirty-Sixth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road, to Federal Street, and forms Camden's northern border with Pennsauken Township at intervals along its length. It became part of Camden when Stockton Township was annexed in 1899, and had been known in Pennsauken as Cove Avenue into the 1890s.
33rd Street runs from the Delaware River south to Highland Avenue at the Pennsauken border, interrupted by the Pavonia railroad switching yard and by a rail line at Rosedale Avenue. It is North 33rd Street above Federal Street and South 33rd below.
32nd Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to the city limits at Highland Avenue, with North and South addresses dividing at Federal Street. At Westfield Avenue an acre of cultivated land and an old house called the "Mansion" were razed for the Westfield Acres housing project, which was itself razed in 2000 and replaced by Baldwin's Run.
31st Street spans from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden, with no addresses outside Cramer Hill since the early 1920s. It is North 31st Street above Federal and South 31st below.
Thirtieth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road to the Pavonia railroad switching yard, then to Westfield Avenue and on to Federal Street, and to the intersection of Line Street and Beacon Avenue, just above Waldorf Street. It is North 30th Street above Federal and South 30th below.
Beideman Avenue runs through Camden's Cramer Hill and East Camden sections, east of North 32nd Street, from the Delaware River south to Cleveland Avenue and from Lemuel Avenue through what was Westfield Acres to Westfield Avenue. It was named for the Beideman family, who owned a great deal of land in northern Cramer Hill before its residential development.
23rd Street originates in the former Pavonia section — now Cramer Hill — and extends south to Federal Street in East Camden; it had been laid out by the time the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory was published. The James G. Blaine School stood at the southeast corner of 23rd Street and Wayne Avenue.
Twenty-First Street runs through Cramer Hill and into East Camden, extending from Harrison Avenue to Federal Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory.
Twentieth Street runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden, from Harrison Avenue to Bank Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. In 1954, fourteen homes with South 20th Street addresses were added when McGuire Gardens public housing was built; they were demolished and redeveloped in the 1990s.
Nineteenth Street runs from the Pavonia railroad switching yards across River Avenue north to Harrison Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, New Jersey.
Eighteenth Street runs from River Avenue north to just beyond Harrison Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, New Jersey. Originally called Dayton Avenue, it was renamed shortly after the 1900 Census.
Seventeenth Street runs through two separate sections of Camden: North 17th Street extends from Harrison Avenue to River Avenue through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, while South 17th Street runs from Federal Street southward across Carman Street to Admiral Wilson Boulevard in East Camden.
Cramer Hill derives its name from Alfred Cramer , who in the late 19th century purchased large tracts of farmland, for the most part between Federal Street and the Delaware River in what was then Stockton Township , subdivided the land into building lots, and sold them on an installment basis to people of average means.
Named for James G. Blaine, the 1884 Republican presidential candidate, Blaine Street ran from South 7th Street to Trenton Avenue and through to Haddon Avenue. No houses stand on Blaine Street today.
Arthur Avenue, named after President Chester A. Arthur, is located in the Cramer Hill neighborhood of Camden. It runs from 24th Street eastward to 29th Street and Von Nieda Park, passing along the south side of Veterans Memorial Park.
Cramer Street runs east through the Cramer Hill and East Camden neighborhoods of Camden, NJ. Named for real estate developer Alfred Cramer, who sold more than 5,000 building lots in the area by 1897, it stretches from the 2600 to 3400 blocks.
James T. McGrory was born on July 25, 1927, to James T. McGrory and Marguerite McGrory (née unknown). In the 1930 Census, the McGrory family, including James' younger siblings Doris and Joseph, resided at 527 Fairview Street .
Incorporated in 1828, the progress and possibilities of Camden have far exceeded the expectations of the Founders and Incorporators. The year 1928 witnessed the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Camden as a city.
The Twelfth Ward Republican Club, aka East End Republican Club, has a long and interesting history.
The Felton and Brown Families, as told to Joan Kaighn by Edward Ross, Sr., 89 years old at his home, 129 Moore St., Lenola, N.J.
A&A Soft Pretzel Baking Company, run by the Panara family, moved to Camden, New Jersey in 1976 and has baked pretzels in Cramer Hill since 1985.
Originally a part of Stockton Township , the area that is now known as East Camden was merged into Camden proper in 1899 along with the neighborhood now known as Cramer Hill .
ROBERT E. ALLENBACH was the Chief of Police in Camden, New Jersey from 1998 through 2004.
27th Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to Marlton Avenue. Originally called Fulton Street before the 1899 annexation of Stockton Township, it was one of the main thoroughfares of the neighborhood and home to football star Mike Rozier.
WILLIAM E. ALBERT was born in New Jersey around 1870. He was the son of Ernest and Hannah Albert. Ernest Albert had emigrated to America from Wurttemburg in what is now Germany.
William Abels was born in Pennsylvania around 1839 to Andrew and Sarah Abels. His family was living in Wilmington in 1850.
Frank T. Lloyd (1859–1951) was a Camden printer turned lawyer who served in the New Jersey Assembly, as Camden County Prosecutor, as a Circuit Court judge from 1906 and as a New Jersey Supreme Court Justice from 1924 until his retirement in 1938.
January 13, 2014 This page and the other pages in this series are the successors to the series of web-page about the Camden Fire Department.
Josue Rivera, 40, was found fatally struck with a hatchet at his home on the 2700 block of Tyler Avenue in Cramer Hill; investigators believed the attacker may have known him.
The house at 1144 North 24th Street in the Cramer Hill section of Camden was destroyed by fire on October 5, 2011.
Camden Fire Department response to a fire at 1227 North 28th Street in Cramer Hill on September 19, 2011.
A 2008 Courier-Post report on drug dealing, three unsolved homicides and a proposed trespassing ordinance at Ablett Village, with residents largely unwilling to speak on the record. Camden Courier-Post, May 5, 2008.
Personal memories of the William C. O'Brien family who lived at 2901 Adams Avenue in Cramer Hill from 1947 through the late 1950s, contributed by Patsy O'Brien Maggiulli in January 2008.
Edward S. Kavlick's memories of growing up at 7 Leonard Avenue in East Camden, 1962–1977.
An electrical fire damaged a second-floor apartment at 139 North 36th Street, displacing a family of four. Camden firefighters contained the blaze to the front bedroom in 14 minutes; no injuries were reported. Working smoke detectors alerted occupants in time.
Vincent P. Sarubbi, Camden County Prosecutor March 12, 2003 Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi announced that bail was set today at $1 million for Binh Thach, M/40, who is charged with two counts of Murder and one count of Attempted Murder in connection with a triple shooting in a Camden home on Monday, March 10, 2003.
Two men were shot and killed and a woman critically wounded in a 2600 block Cramer Street boarding home on March 10, 2003. Binh Thach, 40, later surrendered to police and was charged with two counts of murder.
A three-alarm fire ripped through the duplex at 909-911 North 24th Street in the Cramer Hill section of Camden on December 17, 1991, leaving at least ten people homeless. (Camden Courier-Post, December 18, 1991)
Valerie Kalyta, 6, was killed and Jennifer Fustin, 5, critically injured in an intense fire at 906 North 28th Street. Valerie was pronounced dead on arrival at Cooper Hospital; Jennifer was transferred to St. Christopher's burn unit in Philadelphia.
Obituary of Francis X. Engel Sr., the Camden tavern owner who shot and wounded accused mass murderer Howard Unruh from an upstairs window during the 1949 Cramer Hill rampage. Camden Courier-Post, August 17, 1983.
A hand-lettered diagram printed with the Courier-Post's 1974 feature on Howard Unruh, showing the 3200 block of River Road and 32nd Street: the Harrie and Hamilton homes, the shoe repair and barber shops, the drug store, the Unruh apartment and where each victim was found. Camden Courier-Post, September 7, 1974.
A Courier-Post feature of September 7, 1974 retracing Howard B. Unruh's shooting spree of September 6, 1949 at River Avenue and 32nd Street in Cramer Hill, from the drugstore of Maurice M. Cohen to his surrender, confession to Prosecutor Mitchell Cohen and commitment to Trenton State Hospital.
A Courier-Post feature of September 7, 1974 in which retired Camden policeman John Ferry, the first officer at the scene of Howard Unruh's 1949 shootings, recalls what he found and the moment he had a clear shot at Unruh.
Twenty-five years after Howard Unruh's 1949 "Walk of Death," Frank Engel — proprietor of Engel's Cafe on River Avenue in Cramer Hill — recounts to the Camden Courier-Post how he fired the shot that wounded the killer.
Bertha Reed, 18, of 928 North 21st Street carried three-year-old Michael Moran to safety when fire broke out at 1145 DuPont Street in Cramer Hill; Engines 9 and 11 and Truck 3 responded.
Julius L. Hubert, 62, a lifelong resident of Camden and a 32-year employee of the Public Service gas plant, died at his home, 1199 North 36th Street. He was survived by his widow Marian, two sons, a daughter, and two grandchildren.
Obituary of Mrs. Emma M. Grover, 81, of 910 North 27th Street, a Cramer Hill resident of 65 years, February 1954.
The newly organized Auxiliary Police Department of Ablett Village staged the project's first Fourth of July celebration, with races, donated prizes and a pony for the children. Camden Courier-Post, July 6, 1953.
Stanley Skabicki, 77, died at his home, 1051 North 36th Street. Born in Lithuania, he resided in Camden for more than 50 years and was a member of the National Lithuanian Beneficial Club. Survived by three sons and a daughter.