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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.
Federal Street, originally called Joseph Cooper's Lane, is one of the primary east-west streets in Camden, running from the Delaware River waterfront through Stockton Township to Mount Holly. The intersection of Federal Street and Broadway is considered by most to be the center of center city Camden.
EDWIN FORREST ALLEN was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on October 9, 1872, as a replacement for David B. Sparks, who had resigned. He served as an extra man with the Hook and Ladder Company (present-day Ladder Company 1). He was resigned from his position with the Fire Department on June 30, 1873. He was replaced by John Gray. Edwin F. Allen was on occasion recorded as Edward F. Allen, however, Edwin was his given name.
Harry J. Allebach was born on November 24, 1897, in Norristown, PA. He married Consuelo Elverson around 1917.
CHARLES L." SHAD" ALCOTT was born in New Jersey around 1857. The Census indicates July of 1858. Sorting him out can be confusing as there was a Charles M. Alcott, born February of 1857, who lived in Camden at the same time.
Joseph A. Alcorn (1919-1958) was a Camden, New Jersey native and US Marine Corps veteran who founded Alcorn Motor Sales on Federal Street in East Camden.
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.
JOSEPH "JOE" ACQUARO grew up in Camden, New Jersey. He was the son of Biagio "Benny" Acquaro and the former Frances Petrella.
BIAGIO 'BENNY' ACQUARO was born in Philadelphia PA on March 22, 1906. His mother Nunziata passed away at the age 45 when Benny was only two years old, on August 22, 1908. His father Giuseppe took him and his two sisters, Mary and Catherine, to Italy.
ISRAEL BUTLER ADAMS JR. was born on October 23, 1859, one of twelve children born to Israel and Adeline Cox Adams. The elder Adams was a farmer.
William Abels was born in Pennsylvania around 1839 to Andrew and Sarah Abels. His family was living in Wilmington in 1850.
ROBERT T. ABBOTT was born in Salem, New Jersey on March 21, 1869 to Benjamin P. Abbott and his wife, the former Beulah Horner.
Samuel P. Orlando, born on April 26, 1900, in Italy, was the son of Tony and Fortune Orlando. He immigrated to the United States in 1909, along with his family. In the 1910 Census, the Orlando family was residing in Bridgeton, New Jersey.
My father, Joseph A. Alcorn , had a used car dealership on the corner of 15th and Federal Streets . He started the business with Skip Gardner as his partner in the late 40's and bought Skip out during that same period.
Ron Blizard's recollections of growing up in East Camden in the 1950s and 1960s — Tony the Barber's shop on Westfield Avenue, Mrs. Molotsky at Garfield School, Brand's grocery on Dudley Street, a boy's life around Dudley Grange Park, and Mr. Motzer's Latin class at Davis Junior High School.
Jill Petris Lamparella's memoir of growing up in East Camden in the 1950s — 139 North 32nd Street, Roles Court Apartments, Dudley Grange Park, the Henry H. Davis School, and the shops of 27th Street.
Edward S. Kavlick's memories of growing up at 7 Leonard Avenue in East Camden, 1962–1977.
By Kevin Callahan Although he would rise to the pinnacle of college football just four years later by winning the Heisman Trophy, Mike Rozier 's last play for Woodrow Wilson High School was spent looking down in the dirt on the field that would later bear his name.
Three 2004 criminal cases connected to Howell Street: the murder of Diane Jackson, the fatal shooting of Zabdiel Cardona, and the jailhouse heroin-overdose death charged to Jose Maldonado.
My father, Biagio Acquaro , had a self-owned business at 2713 Federal Street in East Camden , from the 1940's through the late 1960's. His establishment was called "Federal Hat Cleaning.
Daniel J. Cooperson and Barry Abrams, who met at Cramer School in East Camden in 1956, remained close friends for nearly a half-century — the subject of the book Barry and Dan, published in 2004.
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.
Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi announced that Binh Thach, 40, was charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in connection with the March 10, 2003 shootings at a boarding home in the 2600 block of Cramer Street.
Four children of Mrs. Geraldine Binder died in a 20-minute fire at 433 Garden Avenue in East Camden; Battalion Chief Thomas Blair said all four appeared to have died of smoke inhalation and that the blaze likely started near the living room couch.
Bowman L. Hargis, 82, a retired Campbell Soup electrician of 114 South 32nd Street, died April 18, 1972. Services were held at the Bradley Funeral Home on Federal Street with Masonic rites by Trimble Lodge #117.
Obituary of Martha A. Crossley, 66, of 2411 Howell Street, who died May 9, 1971.
A May 1964 Camden Courier-Post advertisement in which Modern Lumber and Woodworking Co. of 226 N. 38th Street congratulates New Jersey on its 300th anniversary and announces a new retail division in Berlin, N.J.
A Camden Courier-Post death notice for Frances Nicholas Freidel, 76, widow of Harry Freidel of 210 South 32nd Street, who died January 17, 1964.
Dr. S. Marvin Bell, 55, of 2411 Baird Boulevard, a Camden dentist for 22 years and past president of Congregation Beth Israel and the East Camden Lions Club, died at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia.
Engine Co. 9 — the company Camden fireman Harry Mailahn was assigned to — was called to his own home at 2924 Royden Street while he was out on an errand, to put out a fire that began in a kitchen chair.
The engagement of Miss Karren Andrus Johnson to Joseph Charles Saiia of 2411 Howell Street was announced in July 1960, with an April wedding planned.
William Corbett of 2513 Howell Street was among three people injured when a car struck a pole at 18th and Federal streets in June 1959.
Obituary of Bertram D. Zimmerman, 57, of 2412 Howell Street, a stationary fireman at the Camden Courthouse, who died at West Jersey Hospital in March 1959.
Johnny's Welding Service, run by John Glaser at 238 North 41st Street in East Camden, advertised electric and acetylene welding, portable equipment, and air compressor service in the 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages.
A factory-authorized Hoover sales and service station at 205 North 41st Street in East Camden, with J. A. McDermott as representative, advertised in the 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages.
Ace Vacuum Cleaners Service, owned by Walter J. Mientus at 447 North 41st Street in East Camden, advertised repairs on all makes and Premier sales and service in the 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages.
A March 1954 Quaranta & Bloom classified advertisement offering new all-brick homes with stone fronts at 32nd and Mickle in East Camden for $9,850 with FHA and VA financing.
A March 1954 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for Rosedale Homes, twin brick houses at 413 38th Street in East Camden, offered at $10,250 through realtor Philip B. Tannenbaum.
Raymond H. "Mike" Stark Sr., 59, of 141 North 32nd Street, a retired Camden city policeman appointed in 1917 and pensioned in 1944, died of a heart condition in Cooper Hospital. He organized the Camden Bridge police force during a 1926 leave of absence and was a charter member and secretary of the Retired Police and Firemen's Association of Camden County.
Camden Courier-Post - May 22, 1953 A Camden fire department captain has received a disability pension as a result of injuries received while fighting an East Camden blaze last year.
Evelyn Mailahn of 243 South 32nd Street was fined $50 in Haddon Township municipal court for letting an unlicensed driver use her car; the driver, Hampton Williams of Runnemede, was fined the same amount after the car struck a truck.
Howard A. Groth of 242 South 32nd Street, a Camden resident of 40 years and a member of Camden Lodge 15 F&AM, died in West Jersey Hospital in April 1953.
Mrs. George Beitzel of 124 North 32nd Street shot her husband, a Pennsylvania Railroad policeman, in the arm and fired at their 15-year-old son, who ducked and escaped. Judge Benjamin Dzick refused her guilty plea and held her for the grand jury.
Obituary of Mrs. Sarah F. Southwell, 57, a lifelong Camden resident and widow of Malcolm Southwell, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Noden, at 2010 Howell Street.
Mayor Brunner called a July 1950 conference to coordinate city departments in clearing high grass and weeds from Camden — a campaign during which crews uncovered and destroyed more than 200 wild marijuana plants on a city lot at Chelton Avenue and Arlington Street.
Obituary of Howard Bean, 56, the Camden policeman and commander of the VFW Department of New Jersey in 1940–41, who died June 8, 1950 at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, six days after retiring on pension.
Services for Pfc. William Groome, killed in action at Anzio, Italy on May 12, 1944, were held at National Cemetery, Beverly, with military rites conducted by a squad from Ft. Dix. He had resided in Camden for six years at 119 North Twenty-third Street.
Death notice for Agnes M. Neuman, 72, widow of Hugo Neuman, of 2216 Howell Street, who died November 14, 1948.
Three Camden men, including two residents of 2006 Howell Street, were arrested in connection with the $2 holdup and attempted murder of George Manning of Merchantville.