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Florence Street

Bulson-Street-at-8th-Street-1955
Streets

Bulson Street

Bulson Street runs east from Broadway to South 11th Street alongside the railroad tracks, named after 19th-century farmer Gilbert Bulson. At one time the tracks were at street level; in modern times the overpass has been known as "the hump."

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Camden National Bank, 2003-11-22
Banks

Camden National Bank

1123 Broadway (Broadway and Sycamore Street), Camden, NJ Established in 1885, the Camden National Bank opened at 259 Kaighn Avenue on August 13, 1885. Zophar C. Howell was the first President.

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News Articles

Boulevard was named for Decorated World War I admiral

Camden Courier-Post - September 6, 1999 By LAURIE STUART Courier-Post Admiral Wilson. Motorists who have driven through Camden instantly recognize the name, but most don't know who he is. Henry Braid Wilson was born in Camden in 1861.

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Joseph Steer obituary — Camden Courier-Post, June 4, 1948
News Articles

Joseph Steer

Obituary notice for Joseph Steer, 66, of 1241 North Twenty-first Street; requiem Mass was rescheduled to 9 a.m. in St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church.

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News Articles

Boys Smash Desks In Camden School But Take Nothing

Suspects Believed to Have Resented Teachers Refusing Promotion Hiding in the H. B. Wilson School , Ninth and Florence streets , until a Parent-Teacher Association meeting was over and the school locked for the night, several boys turned vandals by forcing open desk drawers, breaking the glass in book cases, marring desks and strewing papers about.

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Guardsman Skater Drowns, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 22, 1917
News Articles

Guardsman Skater Drowns; Narrow Escape For Four

Charles R. Evans, 19, of 139 South Thirty-second Street in East Camden, broke through the ice on the lake at Forest Hill Park and drowned while 300 fellow skaters looked on. Four would-be rescuers — Harry Haas, Graham Wishart, Wilbur Crane and Matthew Yingling — were dragged from the freezing water by a park guard and a policeman.

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