Tag: Liney Ditch

  • E. Allen Hughes

    E. Allen Hughes embarked on a distinguished 36-year career as a reporter and copy editor with the Camden Courier-Post newspapers, commencing in 1928. Notably, he ventured into radio news broadcasting over WCAM in the late 1930s. His prolific journey concluded with his retirement in 1965. During the autumn of 1932, E. Allen Hughes authored a…

  • Liney Ditch

    Liney Ditch

    Liney Ditch takes its name from Line Ditch, a.k.a. Little Newton Creek, a.k.a. Kaighn’s Run, a stream located in South Camden. This stream originated out near 10th Street at one time. It flowed under Broadway between Jackson and Lansdowne Street and appears on 19th and early 20th century maps and atlas plates. Once Eavenson &…

  • Line Street

    Line Street

    Line Street got its name because it followed the final division line between the Cooper and Kaighn properties. Initially laid out as a twenty-foot alley, it was widened to fifty feet in 1848. That same year, when the city charter was amended by the State legislature, Line Street became the boundary between the Middle and…