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Railroad Avenue

Two-story brick rowhouse at 436 Viola Street, Camden, with a dark awning, red entrance bay and white door.
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Viola Street

Viola Street runs west from Ancona Street across Broadway to the railroad tracks and Interstate 676. City directory records, newspaper clippings, and photos from 1891 to 1983.

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Reese Street

Reese Street was a short half-block street in Camden that ran west from Railroad Avenue, notable for a row of 12 garages that stood into the 1960s.

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Erie Street

Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.

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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.
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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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Looking west on Beckett Street from West Street, December 2004
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Beckett Street

Beckett Street, named for Henry and Mary Beckett who owned land in South Camden around 1853, originally ran from Front Street to West Street. After 1947 the eastern portion was demolished for an industrial building; today it runs only from South 3rd Street to West Street.

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Baxter Street and Mount Ephraim Avenue
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Baxter Street

Baxter Street (formerly Newton Street and locally known as "Hog Alley") ran from South 7th Street to Mount Ephraim Avenue in South Camden, notorious for decades as a hub of illegal activity; largely demolished, the 700 block survives as an overgrown alley.

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Clare-Street-From-Division-Street-2012-03-19
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Clare Street

Clare Street is a one-block thoroughfare in South Camden, running from Pine Street to Division Street. Originally called Pine Avenue, it was renamed Clare Street between 1878 and 1890, then later renamed Jesthroe Hunt Sr. Lane in honor of a Camden firefighter who passed away in 2005.

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General Gas Mantle Company - Jefferson Street - 1926
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Jefferson Avenue

Jefferson Avenue, also called Jefferson Street, runs from the Delaware River east to South 10th Street in Camden, one block north of Chelton Avenue; construction of I-676 severed the street, wiping out all structures east of the railroad tracks to Master Street.

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Railroad Avenue - Sanborn Map - 550 Block of Chelton St - 1906
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Railroad Avenue

Railroad Avenue ran from Kaighn Avenue to Jefferson Street in Camden. The page includes a 1906 Sanborn Map of its west side from Chelton Avenue to Bulson Street.

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Courier-Post clipping, Gun Victim Identified As City Man, 1974
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Gun Victim Identified As City Man

Police identified the man found shot to death on a vacant lot off the 600 block of Woodland Avenue as James A. Williams, 40, of 808 Sylvan Street, in November 1974.

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Voodoo Is Held for Murder, headline banner, Camden Courier, April 9, 1925
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'Voodoo' Is Held for Murder

Police held "Doctor" H. H. Hyghcock without bail after discovering a maze of tunnels, "witch caves," and gruesome remains beneath 413 and 415 Liberty Street; Police Judge Cleary first held him on lesser charges.

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Newspaper clipping: Plenty of Mix Ups Caused by Blaze, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 17, 1906
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Plenty of Mix Ups Caused by Blaze

A slight fire at the Dunn Oil Cloth Works in South Camden badly burned Charles Hampton, and Fire Chief Elfreth's runaway carriage horse wrecked the Story Furniture Company awning and ran over Harry Haines, a blind fife player, in August 1906.

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