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William Stanley Ablett Village is a 306-unit public housing project at River Road and State Street in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, built by the Housing Authority of the City of Camden during World War II and named for a Camden soldier killed in action in France during World War I.
Annals of Camden No 3 - Old Ferries - Camden NJ Download In this age of inventions, improvements and ever-changing modes of transportation, the ferry boat is still an important factor in carrying the traveller across that "goodly and noble" river which forms the boundary between the two Quaker Colonies of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Point Street in North Camden was laid out in 1804 as Cooper's Point Road, giving access along the riverbank to sawmills, planing mills and shipyards; its current name comes from that road.
Carman Street ran from Broadway to South 8th Street downtown and, across the Cooper River, from 15th Street through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at 31st Street. It is apparently named for William Carman, whose home at Broadway and Federal Street stood until 1902.
Birch Street once ran from Front Street through Ninth Street in North Camden. Over the years, the Delaware River Bridge, the Port Authority, and the Northgate Apartment Buildings took most of the street off the map.
Byron Street was part of North Camden's Poet's Row neighborhood, a working-class district whose streets were named for English literary figures. The 200, 300, and 500 blocks developed in the 1890s; the 200 block's north side was destroyed in the catastrophic Poet's Row fire of August 1972.
Reprinted from the series of stories of Camden's earlier days, under the title Sixty Years in Camden County - Gosh! by Will Paul, appearing in The Community news, of Merchantville, NJ.
Main Street is a diagonal street in North Camden running southeast from State and Point Streets. The 1878 city directory listed it as starting at the Vine Street Ferry.
2nd Street extends north-south between Front Street and 3rd Street, running parallel to the Delaware River until Mechanic Street. In the early 1970s, several buildings were cleared on the east side of North 2nd Street below Mickle Street to make way for the Royal Court townhomes and Mickle Tower senior citizens apartment building.
Federal Street, originally called Joseph Cooper's Lane, is one of the primary east-west streets in Camden, running from the Delaware River waterfront through Stockton Township to Mount Holly. The intersection of Federal Street and Broadway is considered by most to be the center of center city Camden.
Benson Street, in South Camden, was named for John J. Benson, an agent of the Camden and Amboy Railroad who played a key role in developing the Stevens’ lands into building lots.
Fifth Street was one of Camden's original streets, running south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Newton Avenue to just west of Pyne Point in North Camden.
Dan McConnell (born c. 1873, Pennsylvania) was a Camden lightweight boxer of the 1890s and early 1900s, managed by Oscar A. Eastlack, who later ran an oyster house at 125 Main Street in North Camden.
July 5, 2004 Under The Bridge While you can drive a car under the Ben Franklin Bridge at street level from North 3rd Street east , at 4th Street there is a tunnel, closed in the early 1980s, that provided amusement for generations of local kids on bicycles, and aggravation for most adults responsible for public safety.
Camden City sold a vacant lot at 123–127 Danenhower Street at public auction, leaving El Centro Comunal Borincano Day Care Center without a nearby playground for its 23 preschoolers despite repeated appeals to city officials.
Burglars broke into three Camden businesses, including the 705 Bar on Chestnut Street and Paramount Billiards at 16 S. Broadway, and three Pennsauken homes over a December 1957 weekend, netting nearly $600; two men were held for breaking into Martini's Service Station at 4th and Main streets.
A 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory advertisement for Crossley Hardware Co, 132 Main Street, Camden, offering electrical and plumbing supplies, industrial supplies, and hardware, paints and glass.
Air war hero Staff Sgt. William "Bill" Kelly was honored by more than 200 friends and neighbors at the First Ward Republican Club, 47 York Street, March 1944.
Camden Courier-Post - February 12, 1938 Arrested at Second and Main streets with a sink in their possession, two youths were given suspended six-month sentences yesterday by Police Judge Mariano .
Four Camden residents were treated for dog bites over the weekend, including former boxer George Delker and John Garrity, 17, of 205 Byron Street.
Fourth Street Houses Between Main and Linden Considered Valuation Last Year set at $133,875, But May Go to $110,000 For 1933 Landmarks Included Twenty-seven properties, some of which are landmarks of generations past, are to be acquired by the Delaware River Joint Commission to make way for the proposed North Fourth Street underpass beneath tracks of the Camden bridge rapid transit line.
Advertisement for the Hoddell Garage, 323 Main Street, Camden, from the 1923 Camden City Directory: gasoline, oils, tires and accessories, storage and repairs.
1917 Camden City Directory advertisement for Walton the Plumber, 201 Main Street, Camden, offering ship and house plumbing and steam and hot water heating.
Captain Dan McConnell, who has run an oyster house for many years at 125 Main street, has sold the good will and fixtures and some oysters to Billy Dieffendorff, a young man who is well known in the Poynts.
1913 Camden City Directory advertisement for Walton the Plumber, 201 Main Street, Camden, offering ship and house plumbing and steam and hot water heating.
The city of Camden was hit by tornadoes, or as they were then called, cyclones, on two occasions, August 3, 1885 and April 2, 1912.
1906 advertisement for Robert J. Wythe, book and job printer and paper box manufacturer, on the second floor at 306 Main Street, Camden.
Billhead receipt from Carl E. Trebing, boot and shoemaker at 430 Main Street, Camden, dated June 4, 1895, for one pair of gents shoes at $6.00.
A fire at a Sixth and Mill Street stable spread to the Philadelphia and Camden Soap Works at 511–513 Main Street and damaged dwellings on Branch Street, causing $16,000 in losses on the night of April 13, 1887.