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Brown Street in Camden's Fourteenth Ward was one of two streets that carried that name. Shown on a 1914 map running east from Master Street to Newton Creek, south of Olive Street, it has no listed addresses in the 1924 Directory and does not appear on the 1946 map.
Olive Street is a short, one-block street in Camden's Morgan Village, running west from South 8th Street to Morgan Boulevard and listed in city directories since 1878.
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.
Canterbury Circle runs south into the Canterbury Apartments from Olive Street, between South 8th Street and Morgan Boulevard, in the Morgan Village section of Camden.
Arnold Street is a street in the Morgan Village neighborhood of Camden, built after 1947 and named after Admiral Henry "Hap" Arnold, who led U.S. Army Air Forces against Japan in World War II.
America Road is a street in two sections: one running from West Octagon Road east to Yorkship Square, the other running from the opposite side of Yorkship Square eastward, ending at East Octagon Road.
By Thomas A. Bergbauer , Retired Courier-Post Editor The Fairview section of Camden was the mother of all planned communities.
Morgan Street runs from Broadway, opposite the old New York Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard, to South 10th Street, crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and South 6th through 10th Streets. Part of the corridor has been renamed Holtec Boulevard.
Morgan Boulevard in Morgan Village is often mistaken for Morgan Street. It originally ran south from Ninth and Morgan Streets past Hunter and Olive Streets and Newton Creek, and was later extended to Fairview Street.
A three-alarm arson fire destroyed five vacant rowhomes in the 700 block of Morgan Boulevard in August 1995; one Camden firefighter was treated for electrical shock and released.
1991 advertisement for Foster Wheeler Construction Inc., 600 Morgan Blvd., Camden, NJ 08104.
The opening page of the inaugural issue of Fire Watch (Vol. 1 No. 1, Spring 1977), the magazine published by and for Camden firefighters, with its table of contents, a note on the cover photo of the 6 June 1976 Harris Terminal Complex fire at Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Fairview Street, and the department, union and staff directories.
Legal notice in the Camden Courier-Post, June 2, 1961: Martin Ginsburg, trading as Martin's, applies for a Plenary Retail Consumption License for 732 Morgan Blvd., Camden.
1959 advertisement for the Reliable Tire Company, George Simon, proprietor, 730 Morgan Boulevard, Camden, listing Firestone, Dunlop, Goodrich and Mohawk tires.
Camden Courier-Post - May 21, 1953 High Mass for Dominick J. Persiani , 35, will be sung Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Sacred Heart R. C. Church . Relatives in the funeral home of Joseph A. Falco, 1020 S. 4th st. , where friends may call Friday night.
Obituary of Mrs. Elizabeth Borman, 67, of 802 Morgan Boulevard, a native of Germany, who died in November 1951 leaving nine sons and three daughters.
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.
James J. Schaffer, 48, of 814 Morgan Boulevard, engineer of Engine Company 10 at Ninth and Morgan streets, died of pneumonia in January 1947. His son, Marine Cpl. James Schaffer, later witnessed an atomic blast test in 1952.
Death notice for William H. Greenan Jr., 35, of 803 Morgan Boulevard, son of William H. and Margaret Greenan, who died March 14, 1946.
Obituary of Mary I. Geitz (nee Ford), 60, widow of Charles Geitz, of 725 Morgan Boulevard, who died July 22, 1941.
Courier-Post photographs of Camden's first volunteer firemen receiving diplomas: a man descending a building on a rope, two men in asbestos suits, and a fireman in a helmet and gas mask.
Obituary of Mrs. Marie Rourke, 77, widow of Eugene Rourke, who died at the home of her son Eugene F. Rourke, 801 Morgan Boulevard, in March 1941.
A Camden fire engine bound for the fire training school and a Public Service bus collided on wet pavement at River Road and Federal Street, injuring fireman Harry Hess and four bus passengers.
Kearsarge Building and Loan Association offers stock shares to parents of babies born in Camden's Fourteenth Ward in April, including Jean Marie Fanslow of 1659 Alabama Road and William Richard Hook of 1577 Alabama Road. Camden Courier-Post, June 10, 1933.
Police searched for a blonde girl, about 18, and two youths who abandoned a stolen automobile after crashing into a taxicab at Morgan Boulevard and Broadway. The cab was driven by Duncan MacKenzie of 1154 North 34th Street.
Wedding announcement for Miss L. Jeannette Sharp of 819 Morgan Boulevard and James O. MacDonald, married at the Woodland Avenue Presbyterian Church in June 1932.
Two Figured in Wounding of Cop and Slaying of Pal Four members of the notorious North Cramer Hill gang, two of them participants in the robbery in which one bandit was killed after wounding a city detective, were sentenced to state prison terms by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.
Thomas Atkins of Oaklyn, driver of the automobile that struck and killed Mrs. Emma Scholl, 67, of 694 Tulip Street at Ninth Street and Morgan Boulevard, was held for the grand jury on a technical charge of manslaughter by Judge Bertman in traffic court.
A motorist crashed through the safety gates at the Morgan Boulevard crossing of the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad at 2 a.m., narrowly escaping a freight train before fleeing north on Broadway.