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Hudson Street

1885 insurance map of the 300 block of Taylor Avenue between South 3rd and South 4th streets, with Bridge Avenue below.
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Taylor Avenue

Taylor Avenue, once called Taylor's Avenue, ran from South Front Street to Hudson Street just south of Federal Street. Laid out by 1850, it was cleared from about 1970 for the Camden County Jail and Hall of Justice.

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Sigmund-Schoenagle-1928
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Sigmund Schoenagle

Sigmund "Sig" Schoenagle was born in Vienna, Austria, around 1875. As a young man, he immigrated to America and settled in Camden, NJ. In 1894, he established a haberdashery at the southwest corner of 3rd and Federal Streets .

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New Junction Hotel, 595 Bridge Avenue (aka 39 South 6th Street), photographed 1892
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Bridge Avenue

Bridge Avenue was one of Camden's most notable thoroughfares, lying between Federal and Mickle Streets. By 1947 only the block east of South 8th Street remained, and that too has long since vanished.

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Newspaper clipping: Injured as Fire Destroys Kresge Building, with a photograph of the burned-out S. S. Kresge store interior at 29-33 Broadway, Camden
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Injured as Fire Destroys Kresge Building

A three-alarm fire swept the S. S. Kresge building at 29-33 Broadway, threatening Camden's central business district; five firemen were burned, and a second blaze at the Camden Foundry Co., Front and Elm streets, called out the city's remaining fire companies.

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BLONDY WALLACE LOSES BREWERY CLAIM SUIT

Action against four corporate defendants in the suit by Edgar "Blondy" Wallace to recover a 20 percent shareholder's interest in the Camden County Beverage Company from Charles A. Bodine, secretary treasurer of the concern, were dismissed yesterday by Vice-Chancellor Francis B. Davis in chancery court.

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