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Henry C. Moffett

Clare-Street-From-Division-Street-2012-03-19
Streets

Clare Street

Clare Street is a one-block thoroughfare in South Camden, running from Pine Street to Division Street. Originally called Pine Avenue, it was renamed Clare Street between 1878 and 1890, then later renamed Jesthroe Hunt Sr. Lane in honor of a Camden firefighter who passed away in 2005.

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Henry S. Harrop
Historical Accounts

1890 Review of Camden, New Jersey - Part 10

FRANK MESTER, IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE LIQUOR DEALER 4th AND ARCH STREETS . This is one of the most widely known houses in the town, it having had an established reputation for the sale of unadulterated wines and liquors.

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1909 and 1911 Kossuth Street, May 29, 2012
Streets

Kossuth Street

Kossuth Street ran south through South Camden from Van Hook Street to the railroad tracks; named for the Hungarian revolutionary Louis Kossuth, much of it was razed in the 1950s for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Manor and Chelton Terrace public housing projects.

·8 min read
Postcard of the Church of the Sacred Heart - 1741 Ferry Avenue Camden
Streets

Ferry Avenue

Ferry Avenue, originally called Ferry Road, was opened in 1820 and runs from Kaighnton in South Camden through Stockton Township to Mount Ephraim Avenue. It was converted to a toll road in 1859 and reverted to the city around 1875.

·2 min read
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 27, 1918 — 50 Taken in Vice Raids
News Articles

50 Taken in Vice Raids

Police and detectives swept disorderly houses across South Camden in one of the largest raids of the period, led by Capt. Lewis Stehr.

·1 min read
Portraits of Harry Duffield, Fred Coursey, and Linnans Staley
News Articles

Boy's Brutal Murderer Collapses at Hearing

Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.

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Daring Work of Footpads
News Articles

Daring Work of Footpads

Joseph Welsh of Sparta, Virginia was robbed of $15 and a gold watch by two footpads near the ruins of the Fries-Breslin carpet mill on Ferry Avenue.

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Camden Daily Telegram clipping, May 12, 1898, Side-Splitting Farce Goes On - Police Committee hearings
News Articles

Side-Splitting Farce Goes On

The Camden Daily Telegram's account of the Police Committee's hearings on charges against city policemen, at which Dr. “Mark Hanna” Davis was noted as absent from the Reformers' deliberations.

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