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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."
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.
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.
Pilot William A. Kreusser, 26, of 873 Fairview Street survived when his light monoplane tore down power lines and crashed in front of 843 Sylvan Street in South Camden on September 30, 1953.
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.
The City of Camden scheduled the sale of a one-story public garage building with 28 individual garages at 2626 Carman Street, acquired for unpaid taxes, along with seven other tax-delinquent properties including vacant land on Twenty-seventh Street south of Garfield Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, July 4, 1941.
Luigi Tortu, 21, of 426 Line Street, and two girls, Pearl Wills of Delair and Evelyn Buffa of 810 Florence Street, were held by Camden city and county police after Angelos Malagas, a restaurant cook shot in the January 11, 1938 holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street, died in Cooper Hospital 13 days later.
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.
Camden motorcycle policeman Joseph G. Ward, 34, of 1572 Louis Street, drowned in Blackwood lake in May 1930 when his canoe overturned after a Moonlight Social Club outing; Gloucester Township police opened an investigation.
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.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden news for January 17, 1906, including the burial of former Mayor J. Leighton Westcott from his home at 221 North Third Street, and a girl's hand crushed in factory machinery at Ninth and Market Streets.