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Tyler Avenue
Tyler Avenue runs northeast through Cramer Hill from North 27th Street to North 30th Street, one block north of Pierce Avenue. It is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845).
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Pierce Avenue
People
Thomas C. Blair Jr.
Thomas C. Blair Jr. (1925–2003) was a Camden firefighter who was appointed to the Camden Fire Department on December 30, 1950, rose from fireman to captain and then Battalion Chief in December 1969, and retired on February 1, 1981.
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Adams Avenue
Adams Avenue, in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, was named after President John Quincy Adams, running northeast from North 28th Street to the site of the former Tucker shipyard.
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Cambridge Street
Cambridge Avenue, also known as Cambridge Street, runs easterly from the Delaware River through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, crossing Harrison, Pierce, Wayne, and River avenues to North 27th Street.
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36th Street
Thirty-Sixth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road, to Federal Street, and forms Camden's northern border with Pennsauken Township at intervals along its length. It became part of Camden when Stockton Township was annexed in 1899, and had been known in Pennsauken as Cove Avenue into the 1890s.
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35th Street
35th Street runs from the Delaware River south to River Avenue, then resumes east of the Pavonia railroad switching yard and again beyond Westfield Avenue, reaching Federal Street and continuing three blocks to Highland Avenue at the Pennsauken border. It is North 35th Street above Federal and South 35th below.
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32nd Street
32nd Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to the city limits at Highland Avenue, with North and South addresses dividing at Federal Street. At Westfield Avenue an acre of cultivated land and an old house called the "Mansion" were razed for the Westfield Acres housing project, which was itself razed in 2000 and replaced by Baldwin's Run.
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26th Street
26th Street, originally called Union Street in the pre-annexation Pavonia section, runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden from the Delaware River to Bank and Mickle Streets. It was laid out before 1887 and renamed after Stockton Township was absorbed by Camden in 1899.
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22nd Street
22nd Street spans the former Pavonia section — now Cramer Hill — and extends south to Federal Street in East Camden, already laid out by the time the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory was published.
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21st Street
Twenty-First Street runs through Cramer Hill and into East Camden, extending from Harrison Avenue to Federal Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory.
Bakeries
A & A Soft Pretzel Baking Company
A&A Soft Pretzel Baking Company, run by the Panara family, moved to Camden, New Jersey in 1976 and has baked pretzels in Cramer Hill since 1985.
Historical Accounts
Growing up in Cramer Hill
By Ted Frett Ted Frett grew up in Cramer Hill at North 29th Street and Tyler Avenue , and shared his memories of growing up in Cramer Hill in the 1940s and 1950s.
News Articles
Fireman Injured as Plant Burns
Camden Courier-Post, December 20, 1971: A Camden fireman was injured when his ladder ripped from its base at a general-alarm fire that destroyed the empty John R. Evans leather tanning plant in North Camden.
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Eckel
Death notice for Margaret M. (nee Pepeta) Eckel, 68, wife of William H. Eckel of 2719 Pierce Avenue, Camden, with Mass at St. Anthony of Padua R.C. Church and interment at Calvary Cemetery.
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Police, Fire Tests Take Heavy Toll
Camden Courier-Post coverage of the June 1968 Civil Service results for the Camden fire captain and patrolman examinations, listing every candidate who passed — including Anthony D. Moffa of 23 Leonard Avenue, who scored 73.3 on the fire captain's test.
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Orris W. Smith
Obituary of Orris W. Smith, 37, of 2818 Pierce Avenue, a layout man at Belmont Iron Works in Philadelphia for 17 years, a World War II Marine and past commander of VFW Post 518.
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Seven Violate Trucker Rule On Boulevard
Four truck drivers were fined in Camden Municipal Court for failing to keep right on Admiral Wilson Boulevard, three forfeited security, and two Camden men, one of 20th Street near Pierce Avenue, were fined for drunken driving.
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Gone But Not Forgotten
A follow-up on the condemned junkyard at 26th Street and Pierce Avenue, owned by Michael Mazzilli, found the structure demolished but its ruins still strewn about.
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Quality Specialty Co Inc
1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages listing for Quality Specialty Co Inc, 2765 Lincoln Avenue, Camden, telephone Woodlawn 3-8972.
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Camden Detective Dies While Fishing
Heart Attack Kills Louis Schlamm; Thrown into Water as Boat Capsizes Avalon, Aug. 14 — Louis J. Schlamm , 55, veteran Camden city detective, died of a heart attack while fishing in Townsend's Inlet near here today.
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Mathis Co. Veteran Wedded 50 Years
William H. Remaley, foreman of joiners at the Mathis Yacht Building Company, and his wife Lydia celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at their home at 2730 Pierce Avenue.
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Candy Selling Club
A Camden Courier-Post want ad of February 14, 1938, seeking boys and girls to join a candy selling club, inquire at 1600 Pierce Avenue, Camden.
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Wm. Eisenberg & Sons Incorporated (Advertisement)
Advertisement for Wm. Eisenberg & Sons, Incorporated, general contractor, 16th and Pierce Avenue, Camden (Camden Courier-Post, February 20, 1936).
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Feitz First Cop Slain Here; 6 Others Survived Wounds
The murder of Detective William Feitz by bandits marked the first slaying of a policeman in the history of the Camden department; police records showed three other members had been shot, two stabbed and a sixth beaten with an iron pipe, but all survived.
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3 Youths Sentenced for Robbery of Store
Camden Courier-Post - June 20, 1933 Pleading guilty to robbery of a chain store at Twenty-seventh and Westfield Avenue , three youths were sentenced yesterday by Judge Samuel M. Shay in Criminal Court.
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"Bob" Ashenfelter, Shot in Duel With Burglars, Asks Pension
Detective Robert Ashenfelter, wounded in the August 24, 1931 gun duel with a burglar at the American Store, Thirty-second Street and Pierce Avenue, and Accident Investigator John Sheeran applied for disability pensions before the Police and Firemen's Pension Commission.
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Robbery Gang of 4 Given Long Terms
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.
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Camden Burglar Slain; Cop Wounded in Gun Duel
Burglar Charles Rettberg, 21, of North 36th Street, was shot dead by police and City Detective Robert Ashenfelter was wounded three times in a gun duel at an East Camden store at 32nd Street and Pierce Avenue, August 24, 1931.
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Franz Witt, Camden Scale Manufacturer
Undated newspaper advertisement for Franz Witt, a Camden scale manufacturer at 22nd Street and Pierce Avenue, specializing in adjusting and repairing all makes of scales.
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11th Ward G.O.P. Club to Discuss Boulevard
The Eleventh Ward Republican Club, with president Edward Peard presiding, met to discuss the city's plans for a northeast boulevard from Eleventh and Linden Streets to River Avenue and East State Street, connecting with the proposed Linden Street bridge over the Cooper River. Camden Courier-Post, April 3, 1928.