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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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Camden Courier-Post story, Auto Slips From Jack, Kills Man, about the death of Clarence G. Watson of 2903 High Street.
News Articles

Auto Slips From Jack, Kills Man

Clarence G. Watson, 78, of 2903 High Street, was killed when a car fell from a jack in the shop at 2922 Saunders Street he had operated for 30 years; his son Thomas found the body.

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Marriage Licenses list, Camden Courier-Post, September 15, 1951
News Articles

Marriage Licenses

Camden marriage license applications published September 15, 1951, including William D. Singleton of 408 Haddon Avenue and Irene Skipper of Myrtle Beach, S.C.

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Newspaper clipping, Gas Stamp Thieves Flee Police Shots, Camden Courier-Post, June 28, 1944
News Articles

Gas Stamp Thieves Flee Police Shots

A rookie patrolman and a district detective emptied their guns at two suspected gasoline-stamp thieves near Thirty-third and Saunders streets in East Camden; both men escaped. Camden Courier-Post, June 28, 1944.

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City Property Sale Authorized, Camden Courier-Post, July 25, 1941
News Articles

City Property Sale Authorized

Acting City Counsel John J. Crean was authorized to hold a public sale of 11 city-owned tax title lien properties and lots, including 325 Mickle Street and a lot at Ninth and Everett Streets. Camden Courier-Post, July 25, 1941.

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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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Haggerty Missed Kellmann's Fate, Camden Post-Telegram clipping, October 15, 1912
News Articles

Haggerty Missed Kellmann’s Fate

Detectives Painter and Moffett identify William Haggerty of 2806 Carman Street as the man who crossed the Twenty-seventh street railroad bridge just before Karl Kellmann's murder; he spoke to Duffield there and went on without being interfered with.

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