Tag: Memorial Avenue
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Argonne Street
Argonne Street, named in honor of the World War I Battle of the Argonne Forest, where American forces demonstrated remarkable valor, spanned just one block. It stretched between St. Mihiel Street and Memorial Avenue, positioned north of Line Street. Interestingly, while the original street address of the Camden Convention Hall was 1065-1075 Line Street, this…
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City Industry – Tracking History
By Thomas A. Bergbauer, Retired Courier-Post Editor Just 100 years ago Camden was a thriving, prosperous industrial metropolis and the future looked bright for this river city. At the end of the 19th century and in the first couple decades of the 20th century, industry in Camden came alive and at that time most of…
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Saint Mihiel Street
St. Mihiel Street, named in honor of the heroic actions of American forces during the World War I Battle of St. Mihiel, originally extended northward from Line Street to Mt. Ephraim Avenue. The initial location of Camden Convention Hall was at the northeast corner of St. Mihiel Street and Line Street. In the late 1940s,…
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Convention Hall
Locations: Camden has had two buildings known as Convention Hall, which can get a bit confusing, and the issue gets even more confusing when you add the fact that Camden had four different armories in the years between 1880 and 1960, and one of them was also called Convention Hall! It doesn’t help either that…