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Ida Burton

Kaighn's Point Ferry and trolley, early 1900s
Streets

Kaighn Avenue

One of Camden's major east-west streets, running from Kaighn's Point at the Delaware River east to Admiral Wilson Boulevard and the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, with block-by-block address histories from the 1860s through the early 2000s.

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Camden Daily Telegram extra, October 19, 1897: "Taylor Shot to Kill Him," on the shooting of Sumner Derrickson.
News Articles

Taylor Shot to Kill Him

Robert Taylor shoots Sumner Derrickson in a gambling dispute on Baxter Street; Derrickson taken to Cooper Hospital, Taylor arrested at the Federal Street ferry.

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