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Sheridan Street
Sheridan Street is a residential street in Camden, NJ named for Civil War General Philip Sheridan. It originally ran from Warsaw Street east to Davis Street, later extended to South 10th Street.
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Mechanic Street
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Louis Street
Louis Street runs between Haddon Avenue and Mount Ephraim Avenue, from Mount Vernon Street south to Sheridan Street. Primarily residential with many corner businesses, it passes Whitman Park and was devastated by the crack epidemic of the 1980s.
People
Daniel Smith
Daniel Smith (b. July 4, 1872) was appointed to the Camden Fire Department in 1899 and served more than 40 years, rising to captain at Engine Company 9 in East Camden; he had retired by the end of 1943.
Religion
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church (Polish)
St. Joseph's Parish, the Polish Roman Catholic church of Camden's Whitman Park, began in 1891; its Baroque-style church at 10th and Mechanic Streets, designed by George I. Lovatt and consecrated in May 1914, is on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Sites.
Clubs
Polish American Citizens Club
The Polish American Citizens Club (P.A.C.C.), organized in 1914, provided social and educational resources for the Polish-American community centered around St. Joseph's Church in the Whitman Park section of Camden, NJ.
People
Robert P. Olesiewicz
Robert P. Olesiewicz (1919–1983) served the Camden Fire Department for nearly 30 years, reporting for duty on January 1, 1951 and retiring as a Captain on March 1, 1980. A Camden Catholic High alumnus, he was a standout basketball and baseball player in the 1930s.
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10th Street
City directory records and newspaper accounts for 10th Street, one of Camden’s longest thoroughfares, running from State Street in North Camden through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park to Morgan Village, 1870s–1970s.
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Linden Street
Linden Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden; large portions were demolished for the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Rutgers University and the toll plaza.
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Camac Street
Camac Street, often confused with Gant Street, was a short Camden, New Jersey street running between the Delaware River and South 2nd Street below Kaighn Avenue.
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Bannard Alley
Bannard Alley (also known as Bannard Avenue) runs southeast from Kaighn Avenue toward Mechanic Street along the elevated railroad tracks. It likely originated as a service road for the rail line and has no residential or commercial addresses, serving primarily as a pedestrian and bicycle shortcut.
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Sycamore Street
Sycamore Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets, originally running east from Front Street to Haddon Avenue; its intersections at 7th, 8th and Louis Streets were hubs for different ethnic and cultural communities.
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Butcher's Alley
A short alley between Liberty and Mechanic Streets in South Camden, named for shoemaker William A. Butcher who built a shoe factory on it in the 1890s.
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Locust Street
Locust Street ran south from Beckett Street to Mechanic Street between South 2nd and South 3rd Streets in Camden; its 700 block was known as Oak Street until about 1883 and its 600 block as John Street in the 1870s. Homes and businesses disappeared block by block after World War II, and the last structure, at 1128 Locust, was razed after a fire in 2010.
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Cox Street
Cox Street ran west from 1119 South 2nd Street for about half a block to a dead end, roughly opposite Sycamore Street; it first appeared in City Directories in 1890 and was renamed Sycamore Street around 1922, then erased after World War II as part of a redevelopment plan.
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Mechanic Street
Mechanic Street ran two blocks south of Kaighn Avenue, parallel to it, from Front Street to Haddon Avenue, with a gap between 7th and 8th Streets. Its layout was shaped by intersecting streets and railways.
People
Edward N. Cohn
Edward N. Cohn was born in 1832. On the 1870 U.S. Census, he reported his birthplace as Bohemia, while in the 1880 Census he listed it as Germany. It is likely he was born in a region that is now part of the Czech Republic.
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Haddon Avenue
Haddon Avenue is one of Camden's oldest roads, dating to at least 1792 as a bridle path and incorporated as the Haddonfield & Camden Turnpike in 1839. It runs southeast from Federal Street to the city limits toward Collingswood, Haddon Township, and Haddonfield.
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2nd Street
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.
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Liberty Street
Liberty Street, listed in the 1850 Camden City Directory, was in the early 20th century a culturally diverse area west of Broadway, home to ethnic communities employed in nearby factories and stores.
People
Raymond T. Amos
RAYMOND T. AMOS was born in Frankford, Delaware on December 28, 1905 to Albert and Catherine Amos. His father was a minister. The family had moved to Camden by the summer of 1910 and taken up residence at 1004 Central Avenue .
People
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.
Religion
St. Joseph's Polish Church — World War II Newsletters
Three parish bulletins from St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church (the Polish parish) at 10th & Mechanic Streets in Camden, NJ — dated November 29, 1944; February 7, 1945; and the VE Edition of May 1945.
Historical Accounts
A Camden Story: Reflections and Memories of Richard Brodowicz
Richard Brodowicz's personal memoir of growing up in South Camden in the 1960s and 1970s, covering Polish family life, St. Joseph's Church and School, neighborhood games, and childhood memories on Tioga and Mechanic Streets.
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Krawczyk
Death notice for Mary Krawczyk (nee Talkowski), widow of William Krawczyk of 1544 Louis Street, Camden, who died January 1, 1975; funeral from the Zembruski Funeral Home with Mass at St. Joseph's Church.
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Ramotowski
Death notice for Jan Ramotowski, 59, of 1145 Whitman Avenue, husband of W. Aniela (nee Oldakowski) and father of Wesley and Eugene, with funeral at the Ciechanowski Funeral Home and St. Joseph's Church. Camden Courier-Post, January 25, 1972.
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Camden Trial Testimony Continues In Slaying
Testimony continued in the murder trial of Clarence Shields, charged in the shotgun slaying of James J. Nichols of 617 Royden St. during an argument at 4th and Mechanic Streets.
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Tickets Available for Parish New Year's Eve Party
A December 1970 Camden County Record notice of St. Joseph's parish New Year's Eve party, sponsored by the Holy Name Society in the grade school lower hall at 10th and Liberty Streets, Camden.
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Farland
Death notice for Frances Farland (nee Emerle), 29, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Emerle of 1131 Sheridan Street, who died March 23, 1968, with funeral arrangements at the Zembruski Funeral Home and St. Joseph's Church.
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Jaroszewski
Death notice for Helen Jaroszewski of 1266 Thurman Street, wife of the late Stanley Sr. and mother of Joseph and Stanley, who died April 30, 1967; funeral from the Ciechanowski Funeral Home with a Requiem high Mass at St. Joseph's Church.
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V. Raczykowski Dies at 78
Camden Courier-Post - January 1964 Vincent Raczykowski, 78, founder and owner of the Newport Bottling Works, 1101 Morton Street, died Wednesday in West Jersey Hospital.
Historical Accounts
Mad Hatter - Boston Corbett
Bulletin of the Camden County Historical Society - February 1960 The Man who Shot the Man who Shot Lincoln by Arthur D. Pierce and Howard R. Kemble The year was 1870. The address was 308 Mechanic Street , Camden, New Jersey.
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Hospital Cases
Hospital cases from Camden on November 8, 1958, including Joseph Kelly of 67 South 28th Street (cut scalp) and Raymond Ross of 1223 North 28th Street (cut arm) treated at Cooper Hospital.
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John S. Zmuda
Obituary of John S. Zmuda, 61, of 1066 Everett Street, past commander of the Laskowski-Wojtkowiak Post 74, American Legion, a native of Poland, retired leather glazer and Army veteran of World War I. Camden Courier-Post, December 26, 1957.
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City Court Scene: Judge Holds Engineer in Child Deaths
Municipal Judge Marino held PRSL engineer John C. Gillon for the grand jury in December 1957 on a manslaughter charge in the deaths of John and Karen Wawrzyniak on the trestle at Mechanic and Louis streets, along with a motorist in a separate death.
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Slate Hearing In Two Deaths On RR Trestle
The PRSL engineer whose train killed John and Karen Wawrzyniak on the trestle at Louis and Mechanic streets was released in his own recognizance in December 1957 after a clerical error postponed his hearing.
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Rites Slated Tuesday for Train Victims
A requiem high Mass at St. Joseph's Church was set for John Wawrzyniak Jr., 14, and his sister Karen, 9, killed in December 1957 by a train on the trestle over Louis and Mechanic streets near their Orchard Street home.
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Boy, Girl Struck on Trestle
John Wawrzyniak Jr., 14, and his sister Karen, 9, of 1121 Orchard Street were killed in December 1957 by a Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines train on the trestle over Mechanic and Louis streets; witnesses said the boy died trying to pull his sister off the tracks.
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Mrs. Mary Lambert
Obituary for Mrs. Mary Lambert, 67, of 1219 South Tenth Street, a member of St. Joseph's Church societies, survived by her husband John, son Conrad, and four daughters.
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Marriage Licenses
Camden marriage license announcements from August 14, 1956, including William Coleman of Lawrence Street and Evelyn A. Bond of 1031 North 18th Street.
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Camden Fire Alarms
Camden fire alarms from midnight Monday until midnight Tuesday, printed in the Camden Courier-Post on February 15, 1956: grass fires at 2nd and Beckett, 2709 Federal and 31st and Pleasant streets, rubbish at 1245 Mechanic Street and flooring at 322 Pine Street.
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Camden Fire Alarms
Camden fire alarm log for the 24-hour period ending midnight Tuesday, February 14, 1956, including a grass fire at 31st and Pleasant Streets and a rubbish fire at 1245 Mechanic Street.
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Ex-Camden Man Gets 5-7 Years in Slaying
Isadore Birch, 29, of New York City, formerly of Kaighn Avenue, was sentenced by County Judge Rocco Palese to five to seven years in State Prison for manslaughter in the 1947 death of Zatch McGriff after a fight at 233 Kaighn Avenue.
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So. Camden Man Dies On Job at Shipyard
Samuel Napierkowski, 60, of 1257 Morton Street was fatally stricken on his job in the power house of the New York Shipyard and pronounced dead at West Jersey Hospital.
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Man Is Killed Here When Keg of Beer Explodes in Club
John W. Kmicic, 56, a Pennsylvania Railroad machinist, was fatally injured when a beer keg exploded during a Christmas party at the Ninth Ward Republican club, 536 Broadway, on December 22, 1949.
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2 Thugs Break Arm of Woman, 60, Flee With Handbag on Broadway
A 60-year-old South Camden woman, Mrs. Lillian Heard, suffered a broken left arm battling two youths who stole her purse on Broadway near Liberty street while she was on her way to church.
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Stanley Poduszczak
Obituary of Stanley Poduszczak, 55, an RCA toolmaker for 18 years, who died of a heart attack at his home at 1544 Louis Street, Camden, in October 1949.
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Poduszczak
Paid death notice for Stanley Poduszczak, 55, of 1544 Louis Street, Camden, who died suddenly October 29, 1949, inviting RCA, union and Polish organization members to his funeral.
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Pfc. Louis Bontkowski Rites Set Thursday
A requiem high Mass for Pfc. Louis Bontkowski of 1191 Liberty Street was set for St. Joseph's R.C. Church, with burial in the veterans plot of St. Joseph's cemetery at Chews Landing and military honors by Laskowski-Wojtkowiak Post 74, American Legion.
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Military Rites Set For Pvt. Gdowik
The Camden Courier-Post announces a full military funeral for Pvt. Chester J. Gdowik, killed in action in Italy on May 25, 1944, with High Mass at St. Joseph's Church and burial at St. Joseph's cemetery, Chews Landing.
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In Cafe Holdup
Two armed bandits robbed Briggs Cafe at Lansdowne Avenue and Louis Street of about $1000 in November 1947, then took a car, cash and a watch from two men who chased them; Camden police held three men for questioning.