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  • Camden’s Mayors

    Camden’s Mayors

    1828 – 2024 Mayor Term Political Party Samuel Lanning 1828-1830 Gideon V. Stivers 1830-1838 Elias Kaighn 1838-1840 Lorenzo F. Fisler 1840-1844 John K. Cowperthwaite 1844-1845 Richard W. Howell (Declined) Charles Kaighn 1845-1846 Thomas B. Wood 1846-1848 Benjamin A. Hammell 1848-1849 Charles Sexton 1849-1851 Lorenzo F. Fisler 1851-1852 Charles D. Hineline 1852-1853 Lorenzo F. Fisler 1853-1855…

  • Camden landmark does one thing – and does it right

    Camden landmark does one thing – and does it right

    Camden Courier-Post – December 3, 2004 Owned by one family for 61 years, Donkey’s Place sticks to cheesesteak by Eileen Stillwell, Courier-Post Staff Donkey’s Place, a bar and cheesesteak landmark on Haddon Avenue, is alive and well after 61 years of operation by the Lucas family. Located on the corner of Haddon Avenue and Liberty…

  • Joseph Nardi Jr., a Camden leader, Dies

    Philadelphia Inquirer – November 25, 2003 The state Superior Court judge and former mayor was 71. Said a friend: "The whole city became his family." By Rita Giordano and Dwight Ott, Inquirer Staff Writers To the people who knew him, and there were many, Joseph M. Nardi Jr. was above all a family man, a…

  • City Honors Firefighters Retiring after 38 Years

    City Honors Firefighters Retiring after 38 Years

    Camden Courier-Post – September 29, 1989 By SEAN McKINNEY, Courier-Post Staff CAMDEN — It was the end of an era. The city council honored six of its oldest firefighters yesterday, three days before they were set to retire. Each has worked 38 years for the fire department. Also honored was Deputy Chief James McMaster, who…