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Howell Street runs through East Camden from 20th Street to 30th Street, parallel to the Pavonia railroad tracks. Homes were built by the 1880s, and several businesses operated here during Camden's industrial years, including Nick's Auto Parts and the Pavonia Ice & Coal Company. The first Catholic parish in East Camden, St. Joseph Church, stood at 25th and Howell Street.
25th & Federal Street, Camden, NJ Louis Jacob Kotlikoff was born in Kiev, Russia, in 1879. After immigrating to America, he married Clara Hager, another Jewish immigrant, around the turn of the 20th century.
Allen Palmer was born on April 20, 1891, in the Ellisburg section of Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill), New Jersey, to John and Ida Palmer. By 1900, the family had moved to 26 North 21st Street in East Camden.
Davis Street runs southeast from north of Sheridan Street to Ferry Avenue in the East Camden/Morgan Village area, named for Dr. Henry Hill Davis — Camden's first medical inspector and School Medical Inspector in New Jersey.
Christian Samuel Stark Sr. was born on September 1, 1857, in Philadelphia, to Henry A. and Rebecca Stark. In the 1870s, he married Eliza E. Leech, and their family expanded with the birth of their son William Leech Stark before the 1880 Census.
Berwick Street is in East Camden, running through the 2000 and 2100 blocks between Rand Street and Marlton Pike; the street was extended to South 20th Street after the McGuire Gardens housing project was built in 1954.
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.
Beacon Avenue is a short East Camden street running from the intersection of Line Street and South 30th Street to the city line at Highland Avenue, extending into Pennsauken Township.
Forty-Second Street runs from Jersey Avenue to Camden Avenue in East Camden, crossing Westfield Avenue and High Street, then picks up again for one block between Federal Street and Fremont Street.
Forty-First Street runs from Jersey Avenue to Poplar Avenue in East Camden, crossing Westfield Avenue and High Street, then picks up again at Federal Street for one block to Myrtle Avenue.
Fortieth Street runs south from Poplar Avenue to Jersey Avenue in East Camden, crossing Westfield Avenue and High Street, then picks up again at Federal Street for one block to Myrtle Avenue.
Thirty-Ninth Street runs south from Jersey Avenue to Camden Avenue in East Camden, crossing Westfield Avenue and High Street. City directory and newspaper records document occupants of the 200, 300 and 400 blocks from 1924 to 1947.
Thirty-Seventh Street runs south from Jersey Avenue to Camden Avenue in East Camden, crossing Westfield Avenue and High Street. City directory and newspaper records document occupants of its 200, 300, and 400 blocks between 1900 and 1956.
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.
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.
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.
Theodore Primas was born on December 27, 1924, in Camden, New Jersey, to parents Edward and Hallie Primas.
23rd Street originates in the former Pavonia section — now Cramer Hill — and extends south to Federal Street in East Camden, noted in the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. 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.
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.
This map appears to have been created sometime between 1899 and 1920.
Fremont Avenue, also known as Fremont Street, runs southeast through East Camden from Garden Avenue to South 38th Street, parallel to Federal Street.
Jennie A. Craig was born around 1877 in New Jersey to her parents, Thomas B. and Margaret Craig. She grew up in the village of Greenwich in Cumberland County, along with her older brother, William.
Vincent Scola, born on June 16, 1911, according to Social Security records, was the oldest son of Domenico and Maria C. Scola. However, census records and newspaper accounts suggest that he was actually a year younger.
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 .
William Harry Deitz was born on May 16, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Frank C. Deitz and Caroline Deitz (née unknown).
Baird Boulevard (originally Baird Avenue) runs diagonally through the Parkside and East Camden neighborhoods, named for Camden businessman and U.S. Senator David Baird Sr. It begins at Kaighn Avenue, crosses the Cooper River and Admiral Wilson Boulevard, and terminates at the intersection of Federal Street and 27th Street in East Camden.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pancoast welcomed their son Garfield S. Pancoast into the world in December 1880.
Stockton Park, a 90-acre rifle range and pleasure resort in the Wrightsville section of East Camden, NJ, was organized in 1866 by Civil War veterans.
MAURICE WILLIAM "MARTY" BASKOW was born in Pennsylvania to Abraham and Rose Baskoff. The Social Security Death Index, shows a birthday of January 9, 1908.
18th & Federal Streets , Camden, NJ William C. DuBell moved from Northampton Township in Burlington County to Camden at some point between 1880 and 1887. Once in Camden he found work as a teamster for the Volney Bennett Lumber Company.
The Nine-Thirty-Nine Bar at 939 Market Street in Camden, NJ, operated from the 1930s until razed in the 1980s for the Route 676 interstate.
Founded in 1890, Hurley's Department Store was a fixture in the Camden and South Jersey retail business scene until 1956, when the Hurley family closed the business.
Mickle Street, also known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is a major east-west road in Camden, named for John W. Mickle, a Federal Street Ferry organizer with a large stake in the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
Alfred R. Pierce, son of Russell and Viola Pierce, grew up in Camden and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1939.
One of Camden's oldest and most storied streets, named after the Cooper family. Covers the full length from the waterfront to the 2000 block, including the Victor Talking Machine Company, Esterbrook Pen Company, Johnson Park, the Hotel Plaza, the Walt Whitman Hotel, the Elks Lodge, and East Camden's other Cooper Street.
Myrtle Avenue in East Camden continues Fremont Avenue from South 38th Street east to the city limits at Crescent Boulevard, then runs on into Merchantville.
Thirty-Eighth Street runs south from Jersey Avenue to Camden Avenue in East Camden, crossing Westfield Avenue and High Street, then picks up again for one block between Federal Street and Fremont Street.
The Twelfth Ward Republican Club, aka East End Republican Club, has a long and interesting history.
W.E. Tebbets' 1933 Walkathon Walkathons and Dance Marathons became popular during the Depression years. Promoter W.E. Tebbets set up many of these events all over the country, bringing his own bands and entertainers along to the event.
Krystal Lounge, a bar at 789 Chestnut Street in South Camden dating to before Prohibition, later renowned in the 1990s for live music and dungeness crabs.
Leon Edgar Todd Sr. was born in Camden NJ on November 22, 1893. He operated his real estate agency for many years in Camden at 2623 Westfield Avenue , a building designed by the Camden architectural firm of Lackey & Hettel .
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.
Lewis Liberman (1894-1941) was a Camden, New Jersey attorney, World War I veteran, and Police Court judge who also served as assistant city solicitor.
The City of Camden had a very different look than that of today.
Erlton Italian Bakery, run by the LoPrete family, served East Camden, New Jersey from its Marlton Pike location starting in 1966 until it closed around 2019.
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 .
Leonard Avenue runs one block from Federal Street to Westfield Avenue in East Camden, built in 1915 on land that had been part of St. Patrick's Cemetery.