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Lyric Theater

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Historical Accounts

Herbert Allen Sampson - Oral History

"Q- Where was the first home you remembered? "A- The first home that I can remember was at 12th, that I really remember, was on 12th and Penn streets in Camden. "Q- How old were you then? "A - I don't know, 3 or 4 years old.

·53 min read
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Streets

Mickle Street

Mickle Street, also known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is a major east-west road in Camden, named for John W. Mickle, a Federal Street Ferry organizer with a large stake in the Camden and Amboy Railroad.

·4 min read
Black-and-white photograph looking down a busy commercial Broadway with parked cars, shop signs and a tall building at left.
Streets

Broadway

Broadway was Camden's main commercial thoroughfare, once known as the 'Mall of South Jersey,' running from the Delaware River bridge plaza south to Gloucester City and beyond.

·73 min read
Newspaper clipping: Feitz First Cop Slain Here; 6 Others Survived Wounds, Camden Evening Courier, Sept. 3, 1934
News Articles

Feitz First Cop Slain Here; 6 Others Survived Wounds

The murder of Detective William Feitz by bandits marked the first slaying of a policeman in the history of the Camden department; police records showed three other members had been shot, two stabbed and a sixth beaten with an iron pipe, but all survived.

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