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Religious History of Camden

From George Reeser Prowell's History of Camden County, New Jersey , 1886 Newton Friend's Meeting About the year 1800, when the general opening of roads made it no longer important to be on the water, Newton Friends determined to move from their old meet­ing-house on Newton Creek to a place more central; and in Fourth Month, 1801, Joseph Kaighn gave them the lot of land-at the corner of the Mount Ephraim road and Mount Vernon Street , in the present city of Camden, on which, in the same year, they built the brick meeting­house that now stands there.

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2nd Street, North of Elm 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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Mrs. Anna Elbertson
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Mrs. Anna Elbertson

A January 1957 death notice for Mrs. Anna E. Elbertson of 917 North 4th Street, a native of Blackwood and a member of the North Baptist Church.

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Newspaper column headed Camden News Notes, Philadelphia Inquirer, February 14, 1910
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Camden News Notes — February 14, 1910

Camden briefs for February 14, 1910, including efforts to bring Dr. Nachman Heller of Harrisburg to a Camden synagogue as rabbi, a new padded cell in the city jail, and Mary Jones of 911 North Second Street bruised by a trolley car at Broadway and Newton Avenue.

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Philadelphia Inquirer clipping, May 14, 1900, Destructive Work of Flames in Camden - Taylor Avenue fire
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Boys Playing With Matches Started a Big Fire

Boys playing with matches behind the Market House on Federal Street started the biggest fire in Camden's history on May 13, 1900, destroying nearly half a hundred buildings along Federal Street and Taylor Avenue before four Philadelphia engine companies helped master it.

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Police in a Church newspaper clipping
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Police in a Church

Philadelphia Inquirer, February 12, 1900 — Police in a Church Philadelphia Inquirer, February 12, 1900 Camden Guardians of the Peace Attend Divine Service Chief of Police John Foster, Captains Stanley, Boyle and Alberts, seventy policemen and Colonel D. B. Murphy, the police drill instructor, marched in a body from the Third Regiment Armory in Camden to Broadway M. E. Church last evening to attend divine service.

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