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Technical Sergeant Benjamin William Dyl of Woodlynne, New Jersey, who grew up at 1524 Mount Ephraim Avenue in Camden's Polish community, served with the 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. Wounded and captured while leading a patrol in January 1945, he died in a German prisoner of war camp on February 5, 1945, after only ten months in the service.
Alabama Road runs from Yorkship Square southeast through the Fairview section of Camden, crossing Collings Road and continuing east through Crescent Gardens Apartments to Mount Ephraim Avenue.
Michael Street is a one block alley-width street in Camden, running south from Jackson Street to Sheridan Street west of Mount Ephraim Avenue, with no buildings carrying Michael Street addresses.
George Denniston Haley (1848-1923) was a Civil War veteran of the 116th New York Volunteers who lost an arm at Port Hudson and later settled in Camden, New Jersey.
Browning Street in Camden was originally Evergreen Avenue. It was renamed in honor of Congressman William J. Browning, who died on March 4, 1920, while performing his duties at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
Border Street, renamed Mt. Ephraim Avenue in the 2000s, ran from Line Street and Haddon Avenue north along the railroad tracks to Newton Avenue. It remains a convenient shortcut between South Camden and East Camden.
Alder Street, also known as Ann Street, was a small street in South Camden between South 9th and South 10th Streets. Both blocks were obliterated by the construction of Interstate Route I-676.
Hallowell Lane runs south from Sheridan Street to Ferry Avenue in Camden, NJ, named for Charles H. Hallowell's brickyard; though it borders New Camden Cemetery and the former Camden Municipal Hospital, no address has ever carried a Hallowell Lane number.
Mount Ephraim Avenue in Camden, NJ, dates to 1878 as the Mount Ephraim Turnpike toll road and was known as Border Street until the 2000s.
Saint Mihiel Street in Camden, NJ, named for the World War I Battle of St. Mihiel, ran north from Line Street; later renamed St. Mihiel Avenue.
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.
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.
The Broadway Trust Company, a bank built before World War I at 938-944 Broadway in Camden, New Jersey, operated until shortly after the 1929 crash.
Amanda Alloway, who was born in New Jersey in November 1843, had a notable life deeply intertwined with the historical tapestry of Camden, New Jersey.
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.
By Dr. Samuel Zuckerman As published in the Jewish Community Voice , January 5, 2005. I am sitting in my den and close my eyes, I see the city as it was in my youth and recall the many people that crossed my path.
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.
By Ronald G. Van Tine Restrictions on nightlong parking on principal streets in the business district will be tried out early next year as a major step in a campaign to make Camden a cleaner city in which to live and work.
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.
A July 1945 Camden Courier-Post report that Technical Sergeant Benjamin W. Dyl of Woodlynne had died of wounds on February 5 in a German prison camp, after being wounded and captured while leading a four-man reconnaissance patrol.
A service flag honoring 1,150 St. Joseph's Parish men and women in the armed forces was unfurled at Tenth and Mechanic Streets, where Mayor Brunner pinned gold stars on the mothers and a brother of parishioners killed or missing in World War II. Courier-Post, August 31, 1943.
Front-page Camden Courier-Post account of the June 1, 1938 drowning of 18-year-old Pasquale Barbalace of 1551 Norris Street in the Delaware River near Petty's Island, while three companions — among them Joseph Piotrowski of 1167 Chase Street — tried in vain to save him.
Three people were hurt when an Audubon motorist lost control on the trolley tracks on Mt. Ephraim Avenue near Decatur Street; among the injured was Miss Dorothy Conroy, 19, of 507 North Fourth Street.
Man and Woman Struck by Lightning; Mercury Tumbles A violent electric storm, which paralyzed a South Camden woman, accompanied by a driving rain tumbled the mercury last night and ended, temporarily, the six-day heat wave.
Camden Courier-Post - June 7, 1933 Both the Fairview and Mt. Ephraim American Legion Auxiliaries have scheduled events for this week.
Pugilist and Pal Identified as 2 of 4 bandits in Landisville Robbery Players Lined Up, Relieved of $200 Robbers Flee in Stolen Car With Crippled Man at Wheel Roxie Allen , Camden's famed welterweight boxer, and one of his pals were arrested last night and Identified, according to police, as two of four men who held up a craps game early yesterday at Landisville.
Three Pals of Camden Boxer Also Jailed at Shore for Grand Jury Quartet Identified by Poolroom Owner Limp Betrays Fighter at Landisville - Says He Did Not Aid Holdup Identified as four of the five bandits who held up and robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom yesterday, Roxie Allen , well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths are under arrest today.
Damage in Fire at Sixth and Bulson Streets Estimated at $45,000 Four Men Risk Lives to Save Two Horses Boys Believed by Police Probers to Have Been Smoking in Building Three boys are being held and two others are sought in the investigation of the $45.000 fire which today destroyed the warehouse of Sitley & Son , wholesale hardware, roofing material and grain dealers at Sixth and Bulson streets.
The Camden Cemetery, known in modern times as Old Camden Cemetery, adjoining the Newton Friends' burying grounds, through an action of a town meeting of the Township of Camden, was founded on March 10, 1836.