Tag: Municipal Hospital
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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. One in particular, the County Hospital at Lakeland, was not, and is worth writing about. In a wiser time, Camden County…
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Davis Street
Davis Street runs southeast from a point north of Sheridan Street, intersecting with Copewood Street, and continuing until it ends at Ferry Avenue. Although Davis Street was not residential, it hosted several significant businesses and institutions in Camden. In the 1960s, following the opening of the Ferry Avenue station of the PATCO high-speed line, a…
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Van Hook Street
Aka Carl Miller Boulevard Van Hook Street, now known as Carl Miller Boulevard, runs from Ferry Avenue, across Broadway and Mount Ephraim Avenue, until it reaches its end at Hallowell Lane. This location was where the former Municipal Hospital for Contagious Diseases for the City of Camden once stood.
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Hallowell Lane
Hallowell Lane, a street in Camden, stretches south from Sheridan Street to Ferry Avenue. Despite being the site of several notable landmarks, no buildings or businesses on this lane have ever used a Hallowell Lane address. Prominent sites on this street include the old Camden Municipal Hospital for Infectious Disease, New Camden Cemetery, and the…
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Copewood Street
Copewood Street, situated to the west of Haddon Avenue and directly across from Harleigh Cemetery, extends beneath the railway tracks and proceeds past Thorne Street until it reaches its endpoint at Davis Street. The street was officially established in the year 1917. Copewood Street is quite unique, as it lacks residential homes, with only one…
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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. Pierce lost control of the police and fire departments by a 4-1 vote. The motion to divest the mayor of the public safety department…
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Woman Hits Husband Hurling Stone at Dog
Philadelphia Inquirer – September 15, 1915 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…