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McGuire Gardens

Adelbert 'Duke' Kirk Sr. portrait
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Adelbert J. "Duke" Kirk Sr.

Adelbert J. "Duke" Kirk Sr. (1918-1989) was a Camden firefighter who was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on November 16, 1956 and served with Engine Company 3 until his retirement on December 1, 1981.

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Morse Street - 100 block - 1951-02-14
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Morse Street

Morse Street in East Camden was named for Henry G. Morse, founder and president of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, whose Camden shipyard led to the creation of Yorkship Village.

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Berwick Street
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Berwick Street

Berwick Street is in East Camden, running through the 2000 and 2100 blocks between Rand Street and Marlton Pike; the street was extended to South 20th Street after the McGuire Gardens housing project was built in 1954.

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East Camden Firehouse-05/03/03
East Camden

East Camden

Originally a part of Stockton Township , the area that is now known as East Camden was merged into Camden proper in 1899 along with the neighborhood now known as Cramer Hill .

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Camden Courier-Post article headlined "United Mission Rescue Corps," August 6, 1971, in three columns.
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United Mission Rescue Corps

A Camden Courier-Post report of August 6, 1971 on the United Mission Rescue Corps, founded by Camden resident Lewis T. Lewis in July 1969, which had raised more than $20,000 but spent only about 15 per cent of it on disaster victims, and which used $7,000 of an inheritance to buy an office building at 2411 Federal Street.

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