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Carteret Street
Carteret Street, in Camden's old Ninth Ward, ran just two blocks from Mickle Street to Newton Avenue. Built after 1891, the street fell victim to the construction of Interstate 676 in the 1970s.
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Mickle Street
People
William 'Indian Bill' May
William M. May (1888–1935), known as "Indian Bill," lived in East Camden for more than two decades. He first came to public attention in December 1910 after a suicide attempt following Elsie Staley's rejection of his marriage proposal, and remained a recurring figure in Camden newspaper reports for the next 25 years.
People
Russell J. Anderson
Russell J. Anderson (1897–1958) served with the Camden Fire Department for over 27 years, from December 1930 until his death in June 1958, assigned to Ladder Company 1 and later the Electrical Bureau.
People
Edward C. Hahn
Edward C. Hahn served in the Camden Police Department from 1922, rising to the rank of Lieutenant. He died of a heart attack while on duty on April 2, 1944.
People
Clay W. Reesman
Clay Wolf Reesman Jr. (c. 1884–1949) served as Camden City Commissioner (1927–1935) and Camden City Clerk (1936–1949), and chaired the Camden County Republican Committee.
People
Charles H. Truitt
Charles H. Truitt (1859-1936) was a Camden native who worked 53 years for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a tugboat fireman and ferry engineer on the Delaware River before retiring in 1929.
People
Alfred Cramer
Alfred Cramer was born in 1844 on a farm in Blackwood. He lived there until he was sixteen, at which poin the began working as a book salesman. This early sales experience would later prove to be a valuable foundation for his success in business.
People
Cooper B. Hatch
Cooper Browning Hatch was a prominent citizen of Camden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born to Joseph and Mary Hatch in a farmhouse that now houses the Camden County Historical Society.
People
Frederick Morse
Frederick William Sheppard Morse was born in New Jersey on February 18, 1880, to Captain William and Annie Morse.
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Henrietta Terrace
Henrietta Terrace is an alley in East Camden, New Jersey, running behind the 2600 block of Baird Boulevard from Federal Street to Mickle Street. No houses or buildings carry a Henrietta Terrace address.
People
Allen F. Hess
Allen F. Hess Sr. was born in Camden on April 16, 1926, to Mary and Harry Hess . By 1927, the family resided at 2733 Sherman Avenue in Cramer Hill. Harry Hess joined the Camden Fire Department on April 4, 1928, and served for many years.
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Allen Palmer
Allen Palmer was born on April 20, 1891, in the Ellisburg section of Delaware Township (present-day Cherry Hill), New Jersey, to John and Ida Palmer. By 1900, the family had moved to 26 North 21st Street in East Camden.
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Church Place
Church Place ran for a half block from Stevens Street north towards Mickle Street, west of Broadway in Camden, NJ. It was laid out between 1878 and 1885, alongside the German Evangelical Lutheran Church, and homes remained there into the 1940s. The church and Chapel Place were razed in July 2018.
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Bridge Avenue
Bridge Avenue was one of Camden's most notable thoroughfares, lying between Federal and Mickle Streets. By 1947 only the block east of South 8th Street remained, and that too has long since vanished.
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Boyd Street
Boyd Street runs through East Camden parallel to Marlton Avenue, from Carman Street to the Pennsauken city limits. Originally named Pfeiffer Street before 1924, it gained notoriety in the late 1980s and 1990s as part of the open-air drug market known as "the Alley."
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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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35th Street
35th Street runs from the Delaware River south to River Avenue, then resumes east of the Pavonia railroad switching yard and again beyond Westfield Avenue, reaching Federal Street and continuing three blocks to Highland Avenue at the Pennsauken border. It is North 35th Street above Federal and South 35th below.
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34th Street
34th Street runs from the Delaware River south to Highland Avenue at the Pennsauken border. It is North 34th Street above Federal and South 34th below.
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28th Street
28th Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road to the Pavonia railroad switching yard, then to Westfield Avenue, Federal Street and Washington Street. It is North 28th Street above Federal and South 28th below.
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26th Street
26th Street, originally called Union Street in the pre-annexation Pavonia section, runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden from the Delaware River to Bank and Mickle Streets. It was laid out before 1887 and renamed after Stockton Township was absorbed by Camden in 1899.
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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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Mickle Street
Mickle Street, also known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is a major east-west road in Camden, named for John W. Mickle, a Federal Street Ferry organizer with a large stake in the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
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Judson Place
Judson Place ran for half a block north from 437 Stevens Street between West Street and South 5th Street in South Camden. Its two homes, at 439 and 441 Judson Place, were occupied as late as 1947 but have long since been razed.
Buildings
Convention Hall
Camden, NJ had two Convention Halls: the first on Memorial Avenue at Line Street, the second the former Third Regiment Armory on Mickle Street.
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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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Berkley Street
Berkley Street was originally spelled Berkeley Street, named for Lord Berkeley, who co-owned the colony of New Jersey from 1664 to 1674. East of Broadway it was known as Hamilton Street until 1882. This page covers occupants from the 200 block through the 3000 block.
People
Joseph Abarno
JOSEPH ARBANO was born in New York on August 11, 1895 to Domenic and Amerosa Arbano. Domenic Arbano had come to America in 1885 with his oldest son, James, in 1885. By 1917 the family had moved to 203 Royden Street in Camden NJ.
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Charles A. Aceto
Charles Angelo Aceto was born in Italy on April 16, 1891 and came to America with his father in 1900. He threw himself into his education and into becoming proficient in the English language.
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Robert T. Abbott
ROBERT T. ABBOTT was born in Salem, New Jersey on March 21, 1869 to Benjamin P. Abbott and his wife, the former Beulah Horner.
People
Sabba Verdiglione
Sabba Verdiglione (1887-1970) founded Camden County's first Italian Democratic Club and served as a court interpreter in Camden, NJ civic life.
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5th Street
Fifth Street was one of Camden's original streets, running south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Newton Avenue to just west of Pyne Point in North Camden.
News Articles
New name for Camden street near planned HQ
Camden Courier-Post - August 10, 2016 CAMDEN - Subaru of America isn't expected to move here until sometime next year, but the firm's already had a change of address.
Historical Accounts
Charles Kocher's Ice Cream Parlor at 72 South 28th Street (a remembrance)
A remembrance shared by Charles Kocher III in April 2009 of his family's ice cream parlor at 72 South 28th Street, at the corner of Mickle Street.
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Camden record dealer 'Broadway Eddie' Warhoftig dies
By Erik Swartz, Courier-Post Staff Edward "Broadway Eddie" Warhoftig , a Cherry Hill resident and Camden businessman who won a Grammy Award as a music producer on one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, died Saturday. He was 69.
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Fire Destroys Row of Houses in Camden
A three-alarm fire starting at an abandoned rowhouse at 63 South 24th Street destroyed eight houses on the block between Mickle Street and Carman Street in May 1996; one firefighter was hospitalized with smoke inhalation.
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Merit awards
Outgoing Camden fire chief Theodore Primas presented awards to two citizens and fire personnel, including those who fought a fire at 2930 Cramer St.; John J. Mogck Jr. was sworn in as the new chief.
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4 Trapped in Blaze Saved by Firemen
A rash of overnight fires in Camden during a February 1967 snowstorm destroyed Ray's Tavern at 5th and Mickle Streets and damaged four buildings; police and firemen rescued four elderly residents, and Acting Battalion Chief Arthur Batten's crew answered the second call for aid after fighting two North Camden blazes.
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Monkey Is Trapped by Banana
A fire truck, an aerial ladder, three firemen and an SPCA task force were needed to bring a monkey down from the rooftop of 333 Mickle Street, across from the Walt Whitman House, after five days at large. Once an SPCA trap baited with bananas caught him, Firemen Wesley Faust and George Hennessy carried the cage down the ladder while acting Capt. James Jones held the safety rope.
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All Brick Home With Stone Front
A March 1954 Quaranta & Bloom classified advertisement offering new all-brick homes with stone fronts at 32nd and Mickle in East Camden for $9,850 with FHA and VA financing.
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Fire Sweeps Mickle Street Coat Factory
A Courier-Post account of a fire at the Progressive Garment Co. coat factory at 210 Mickle Street, where District Chief Howard Gick directed the firefighting.
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Attendance Record
Edward E. Peraria Sr. of 2927 Mickle Street retired from the Camden fire department March 1, 1952, after missing only 62 days of work in 30 years; Chief William V. Pfefferle presented him a cash token at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets.
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4 Cops, 4 Firemen, Widow of One Win City Pensions
Four Camden police officers and four firemen won approval of pensions under the mandatory age-65 retirement law in July 1950, to retire Aug. 31; also approved was a widow's pension for Mrs. Carrie Bean, whose husband, Patrolman Howard Bean, had died June 8.
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Youth Held in Attempt To Strangle Girl, 16, Quizzed on Murder
Camden Courier-Post, December 16, 1949: an 18-year-old South Camden youth is questioned in the garrote slaying of churchworker Richard H. Thompson after his arrest for attempting to strangle a 16-year-old girl.
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Walcott Already in the Pink for Oma Battle Night
Camden Courier Post - May 18, 1946 South Jersey Sports By TOM RYAN We received word from Joey Allen yesterday that Jersey Joe Walcott will be in the pink for his forthcoming fight against Lee Oma.
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Services on Friday for Detective Mills
Funeral services for Camden City Detective Edwin T. Mills, who died at Atlantic Shores hospital, Somers Point, were set for his residence at 240 Eutaw Avenue. Mills had been injured in a March 1943 collision of a police radio car and a bus at Broadway and Mickle Street.
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Lt. Edward C. Hahn Stricken on Street
Lt. Edward C. Hahn, a 22-year veteran of the Camden police department, collapsed and died of a heart attack outside a drugstore near his Third District station house on April 1, 1944.
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Garden State Amusement Co.
Page 71 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the Garden State Amusement Co. at 338 N. 7th St., Daly's, the Budget Plan Corporation at Broadway and Carman St., the East Side Italian Democratic Club at 2316 Mickle Street, the Quality Drug Company, Small's at 2750 Federal Street, J. M., Lou's Family Liquor Store at 2301 Federal St., Heller's Pharmacy at 3631 Westfield Avenue, and Haller's Bakery at 2940 Westfield Ave.
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Ray's Garage
Page 74 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Ray's Garage at 24th and Marlton Pk., The Original Schwoeri at 705 Chestnut St., Mr. and Mrs. N. Lamaina, Roddy's Restaurant at 15th and Mickle Streets, B. F. Goodrich Silvertown Stores at 2041 Federal St., the General Plate Glass Co. at 613-15 Kaighn Ave., the Camden Glass & Mirror Co. at 2305 Federal Street, Joseph DiCianni's shoe repairing at 3720 Westfield Avenue, Walter's automobile body and metal work at 22nd and Federal Sts., and Kress' Food Store at 50 South Dudley.
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City Property Sale Authorized
Acting City Counsel John J. Crean was authorized to hold a public sale of 11 city-owned tax title lien properties and lots, including 325 Mickle Street and a lot at Ninth and Everett Streets. Camden Courier-Post, July 25, 1941.