Businesses
Camden Industries
A directory of Camden's industries and manufacturers by trade, from abattoirs to yeast makers, totaling 349 industries and 39,362 employees.
Tag
James J. Scott
Bars and Clubs
The Oasis Motel
2000 Admiral Wilson Boulevard began as the City Athletic Club, built after the Hotel Walt Whitman and the opening of the boulevard drew Camden business figures including newspaper publisher J. David Stern to develop the new thoroughfare, before the building's later lives as the YMCA and, from the 1960s, the Oasis Motel and Lounge.
Banks
Merchants Trust Company
Merchants Trust Company, a Camden bank organized in 1911 at 18 Broadway that was later absorbed into Broadway Merchants Trust and closed after 1930.
People
Ralph W. Wescott
Ralph W. Wescott, born in New Jersey in 1883 to John W. and Frances Oatman Wescott, was a prominent figure in Camden's legal and civic spheres.
Hotels and Motels
Hotel Walt Whitman
The Walt Whitman Hotel was a venture championed by the Greater Camden Movement, a coalition of business and civic leaders that began to coalesce shortly before and during World War I. They had proven highly effective in raising county-wide funds to support the American war effort.
News Articles
Tags to Be Sold in City, Suburbs to Aid Hospital
Camden Courier-Post - June 10, 1932 Members of the Womans Board to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital have gathered their forces and are in readiness for their annual Tag Day tomorrow.