Tag: Euclid Avenue
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Crefeld Street (aka Arion Ave)
Crefeld Street, once a short street extending east from 1540 Haddon Avenue, is noted in the 1943 and 1947 Camden City Directories. While the street still exists, it has likely been decades since anyone gave much thought to its name. The reason for this can be found in its transformation: Crefeld Street, originally located next…
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Bradley Avenue
Bradley Avenue stretches eastward from 1400 Haddon Avenue to Euclid Avenue in the Parkside section of Camden.
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Bishop’s Hospital Fund Oversubscribed $200,000
Camden Courier-Post – May 19, 1964 Ground for Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital was broken September 7, 1947. More than 2,500 persons saw Bishop Eustace turn the first spadeful of earth at the site on Haddon Avenue near Euclid. He then blessed the ground. The ceremony, attended by church dignitaries, civic and professional leaders, was…
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Walt Whitman Acclaimed as ‘International Prophet’
Camden Courier-Post – June 1, 1939 Wescott Recalls Friendship with Poet at Ceremonies Here Marking 120th Anniversary of his birth; Donaldson Tells of Buggy Gift Acknowledged by the world as the poet of democracy, Camden’s own Walt Whitman was acclaimed here yesterday on the 120th anniversary of his birth as the “prophet of a new…
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Camden Centennial Will Start Feb. 13
Camden Courier-Post – January 28, 1928 Week of Celebration at City’s Convention Hall to Mark Anniversary Camden’s centennial will be observed during the week of February 13. That announcement was made today by Frank Albright, chairman of the committee in charge to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Camden as a city. Most…