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George Farmer

Row of vacant, deteriorating brick row houses on the 500 block of Woodland Avenue, seen from Broadway in winter.
Streets

Woodland Avenue

Woodland Avenue once ran east from Broadway, opposite the New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyards, to South 10th Street in Camden. Its 500 block was part of 'The Terraces,' four blocks of row houses mostly razed by 2008.

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Auburn Street, April 2005
Streets

Auburn Street

Auburn Street is a small street that runs from Broadway to South Sixth Street between Benson and Washington Streets. All 26 homes were seized by eminent domain and demolished in 2001.

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Clipping about two dog-bite victims sent to Cooper Hospital, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 9, 1912.
News Articles

Dogs Send Two to Cooper Hospital

Dogs sent George Farmer, 46 years old, of 978 Woodland Avenue, and George Zimmerman, 5 years old, of 564 Auburn Street, to Cooper Hospital. Farmer was bitten on the arm, while the boy had his wrist torn.

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