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Two firefighters exiting a two-story sided apartment building at 1016-1018 Sheridan Street
Streets

Sheridan Street

Sheridan Street is a residential street in Camden, NJ named for Civil War General Philip Sheridan. It originally ran from Warsaw Street east to Davis Street, later extended to South 10th Street.

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Marble dedication plaque listing the 1913 Camden Board of Education members and school officials.
People

Dr. Henry H. Davis

Physician, pharmacist, and Camden's first Medical Inspector; later Health Director and chief school physician who shaped public-school health care in Camden for a generation.

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Almshouse Infirmary - 1872
Hospitals

Camden County General Hospital

Besides Cooper , West Jersey , and Lady of Lourdes Hospital , Camden residents used other medical facilities over the years. Some, like the Municipal Hospital and Belleview Hospital, both long closed, were in the city limits.

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Coriell Institute for Medical Research on Davis Street, Camden
Streets

Davis Street

Davis Street runs southeast from north of Sheridan Street to Ferry Avenue in the East Camden/Morgan Village area, named for Dr. Henry Hill Davis — Camden's first medical inspector and School Medical Inspector in New Jersey.

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Postcard advertising A.J. Vanzant coal: horse-drawn wagons loading at a coal yard beside rail tracks, with printed address details.
Streets

Van Hook Street

History and occupants of Van Hook Street (now Carl Miller Boulevard) in Camden, New Jersey, including the Bunting family at 515, Clement Coverall Company at 615, Booth's Flowers at 693, the Avalon Bar at 1176, and the eight houses builder S. Levy finished at 632–646 by January 1928.

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Camden-Municipal-Hospital-1956
Streets

Hallowell Lane

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.

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Radio-Condenser-Company-1920s
Streets

Copewood Street

Copewood Street in Camden runs west of Haddon Avenue opposite Harleigh Cemetery to Davis Street; laid out in 1917, it has only one building that ever carried a Copewood Street address and is best known for providing access to the Ferry Avenue PATCO station.

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Pierce is Ousted as Safety Head
News Articles

Pierce is Ousted as Safety Head

Camden Courier-Post - June 10, 1960 Amid cheers and boos from spectators, Mayor Pierce was switched from director of public safety to public affairs director at a commission meeting Thursday night.

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Camden Courier-Post, January 16, 1928, City Engineer Clerk Is Again Discharged
News Articles

City Engineer Clerk Is Again Discharged

E. Allan Weinstein, chief clerk in the office of Thomas J. Daley, city engineer, received notice today from Frank B. Hanna, superintendent of streets, that he has been discharged.

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Woman Hits Husband Hurling Stone At Dog - 1915-09-15 - 1
News Articles

Woman Hits Husband Hurling Stone at Dog

Man Sent to Hospital, Wife to Jail, When Aim of Latter at Howling Animal Fails The bad aim of Mrs. Ella Taylor, aged 25 years, of 3010 Pleasant street , East Camden, resulted in lots of trouble and incidentally sent her husband, William, aged 49 years, to Cooper Hospital , with a severely cut head.

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