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Master Street

1914 map of south Camden showing Brown Street
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Brown Street (South)

Brown Street in Camden's Fourteenth Ward was one of two streets that carried that name. Shown on a 1914 map running east from Master Street to Newton Creek, south of Olive Street, it has no listed addresses in the 1924 Directory and does not appear on the 1946 map.

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Camden Terrace

Camden Terrace was a small street in Camden's Eighth Ward, running south from Fairview Street between South 6th Street and Master Street, obliterated when I-676 was built.

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Ware Street

Ware Street in Camden, NJ was created in the 2000s after the Chelton Terrace housing project was demolished; it runs from Master to South 10th Street.

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Bulson Street

Bulson Street runs east from Broadway to South 11th Street alongside the railroad tracks, named after 19th-century farmer Gilbert Bulson. At one time the tracks were at street level; in modern times the overpass has been known as "the hump."

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1914 South Camden from Pine Street to Newton Creek
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Brown Street

Brown Street in Camden's Fourteenth Ward was listed in the 1906 and 1924 directories but may never have been fully laid out; satellite images suggest it would have run through the Canterbury Apartments tract.

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General Gas Mantle Company - Jefferson Street - 1926
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Jefferson Avenue

Jefferson Avenue, also called Jefferson Street, runs from the Delaware River east to South 10th Street in Camden, one block north of Chelton Avenue; construction of I-676 severed the street, wiping out all structures east of the railroad tracks to Master Street.

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Firefighters Attacking a Fire - Stock Photo
People

George B. Anderson

George B. Anderson was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on September 18, 1872, as a replacement extra man with Engine Company 2 . He filled the position left by William S. Davis , who had been promoted to Engineer.

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David Allaband Profile
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David Allaband

DAVID ALLABAND was born in New Jersey on September 2, 1912. His father, David S. Allaband, died three months before his birth, and his mother Suzanne passed when he was only four years old.

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Mayor City Aides to Confer Monday on Weed Removal
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Mayor, City Aides to Confer Monday on Weed Removal

Mayor Brunner called a July 1950 conference to coordinate city departments in clearing high grass and weeds from Camden — a campaign during which crews uncovered and destroyed more than 200 wild marijuana plants on a city lot at Chelton Avenue and Arlington Street.

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$100 in Gems Stolen from Apartment

Camden Courier-Post - February 7, 1938 Theft at 418 Broadway Reported to Police; other Homes Robbed Two garages and several homes were entered over the weekend by thieves who escaped with cash, jewelry, and other articles.

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3 Youths Held as Blaze Razes Grain Plant of Sitley and Son

Damage in Fire at Sixth and Bulson Streets Estimated at $45,000 Four Men Risk Lives to Save Two Horses Boys Believed by Police Probers to Have Been Smoking in Building Three boys are being held and two others are sought in the investigation of the $45.000 fire which today destroyed the warehouse of Sitley & Son , wholesale hardware, roofing material and grain dealers at Sixth and Bulson streets.

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Police Carnival was a Gigantic Success

The second annual industrial show and carnival of the Camden Police Beneficial Association draws more than 50,000 to the Third Regiment Armory; Captain Edward Hyde served on the organizing committee.

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Raid Didn’t Amount to Much newspaper clipping
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Raid Didn't Amount to Much

Expecting many arrests, Captain Stanley and a squad descended on Tony Gardene's house at 1700 Master Street but found only Gardene and a friend; five cases of beer and a quantity of whisky were confiscated.

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