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Emma Street

1906 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map showing Boyer Street and Nelson Court, Camden, NJ
Streets

Boyer Street

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.

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South 2nd Street and Sycamore Street
Streets

Sycamore Street

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.

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George Addison and Family, circa 1930
People

George O. Addison

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.

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Billiard Room Owner Held in Gaming Raid — Camden Courier-Post, October 15, 1940
News Articles

Billiard Room Owner Held in Gaming Raid

Frank Manfredi, proprietor of a billiard parlor at 1146 South Third Street and a former Camden prizefighter known as Freddie Mack, was fined $100 for operation of a gaming house after a dice-game raid.

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