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Pyne Poynt

Newspaper clipping headlined Spring Clean-up Planned by Board
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Spring Clean-up Planned by Board

The Pyne Poynt Better Neighborhood Council planned a May spring clean-up week drive, with help from pupils of the J. S. Read Elementary School, according to Council President Mrs. Stella Cimino.

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Camden Courier-Post, May 11, 1962: rescue boat dragging the Delaware River for a drowned boy at Pyne Poynt, with the story
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Camden Boy Drowns Off Pyne Poynt

Nine-year-old Eugene Thornton of 539 Birch Street drowned in the Delaware River at Pyne Poynt after falling or being pushed from the pilings; Camden fire department boat crews recovered his body.

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Newspaper clipping headlined Water Carnival Set at Pyne Poynt Pool
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Water Carnival Set at Pyne Poynt Pool

A 1935 Camden Courier-Post notice of an aquatic carnival at the WPA-operated Pyne Poynt swimming pool, with swimming, diving, stunt swimming and lifeguard rescue events.

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John Graham Converted, Camden Daily Courier, July 29, 1908
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John Graham Converted

John Graham, formerly of Pyne Poynt and proprietor of the hotel at Twenty-seventh Street and the Pavonia railroad bridge, takes up pigeon fancying and is nearly ready to enter young bird races.

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