Historical Accounts
History of the First Methodist Episcopal Church
From The Centennial History of Camden Methodism, 1909 1809 was truly the " annus mirabilis .
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Kaighn Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Religion
Religious History of Camden
From George Reeser Prowell's History of Camden County, New Jersey , 1886 Newton Friend's Meeting About the year 1800, when the general opening of roads made it no longer important to be on the water, Newton Friends determined to move from their old meeting-house on Newton Creek to a place more central; and in Fourth Month, 1801, Joseph Kaighn gave them the lot of land-at the corner of the Mount Ephraim road and Mount Vernon Street , in the present city of Camden, on which, in the same year, they built the brick meetinghouse that now stands there.
News Articles
New Camden Pastor Is Given Reception
Rev. L. S. Moore, new pastor of Trinity M. E. Church at Broadway and Spruce street, and Mrs. Moore were given a reception by members of the church.
News Articles
Over in Camden
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of August 12, 1891: saloonkeeper William Gallagher of 106 Kaighn avenue pays his Sunday-selling fine, the Rev. J. Livingston Allen of the Kaighn Avenue Methodist Church marks his silver anniversary, and Thomas Guthridge sues the West Jersey Railroad Company for $10,000.