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Saunders Street

32nd Street at Farragut Avenue - 1931
Streets

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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1000 Block of North 31st Street, Cramer Hill, July 2006
Streets

31st Street

31st Street spans from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden, with no addresses outside Cramer Hill since the early 1920s. It is North 31st Street above Federal and South 31st below.

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Schools

Octavius V. Catto Elementary School

The Octavius V. Catto Elementary School at 2930 Saunders Street in East Camden, built in 1929 by architect Arnold Moses, originally served the Black community.

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One Killed, One Hurt by Train, 1912
News Articles

One Killed, One Hurt by Train

Peter Pfeffer, 20, of 628 North 24th Street, East Camden, was killed and Richard Dunn of 2818 Saunders Street seriously injured when a Pennsylvania Railroad train struck them while walking the tracks near Fish House in December 1912.

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