Tag: 2nd Street
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Old Ferries – Annals of Camden NJ
In this age of inventions, improvements and ever-changing modes of transportation, the ferry boat is still an important factor in carrying the traveller across that “goodly and noble” river which forms the boundary between the two Quaker Colonies of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, although founded several years after the first settlers had arrived in…
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Burns Street
Burns Street was part of Camden's historic “Poet's Row” neighborhood, a small cluster of streets named after famous English literary figures. This charming section, located north of Erie Street and running east-west from North 2nd Street, included Byron Street, Burns Street, and Milton Street. These streets first appeared in the Camden City Directory for 1890-1891,…
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Augustus F. Werner
Augustus F. Werner was born around 1870. According to the 1920 Census, he was born in Texas to German-speaking parents who had emigrated from the Lorraine region, which was then part of France. He met and married his wife, Annie, around 1891. While his obituary states that he first arrived in Camden in 1882, his…
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James F. “Soup” Campbell
James Francis “Soup” Campbell was born on December 24, 1897, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. He likely learned to play basketball at the Homestead YMCA under the guidance of Sandy Shields, a star of the 23rd Street Wanderers. Fellow Homestead natives Jackie Adams and Roy Steele were also trained by Shields, and together, they developed one of…
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Spring Street
Spring Street in Camden dates back to at least 1850 and was mapped by 1891 to run north-south from Clinton Street, situated between Second Street and Front Street in South Camden. Although originally planned to extend as far south as Walnut Street, its development was obstructed by Volney Bennett’s lumber yard at Pine Street. The…
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Camac Street (aka Gant Street)
Gant Street was a short street that ran from Knight Street eastward to 1235 South 2nd Street, located between Liberty and Mechanic Streets. No houses were listed on Gant Street in the 1924 Camden City Directory or in any subsequent directory. It is likely that no buildings ever had a Gant Street address. The street…
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Erie Street
Erie Street in North Camden extends from Beach Street to 9th Street. The streets that intersect — or once intersected — Erie Street include Delaware Avenue, Point Street, Front Street, Segal Street, and the numbered streets from 2nd through 9th.
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Lincoln School
aka Claudius W. Bradshaw School;aka Challenge Square Academy;aka Met East High School 1151 Kaighn Avenue Camden had become an industrial city by the 1880s, and although the country went into an economic slump in the early 1890s, generally referred to as “the panic of 1893,” the city continued to grow and with it the need…
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Larch Street
Larch Street is a small street that runs from 708 North 2nd Street east to North 7th Street, situated between State and Vine Streets. Larch Street first appears in city directories in 1878. An earlier Larch Street, listed in the 1863 city directory and located elsewhere, had either been renamed or no longer existed by…
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Boyer Street
Boyer Street, also known as Boyer Court, extended east from Nelson Street for approximately half a block until reaching a dead end at the rear of 1131 South 2nd Street. Pedestrian access was provided by an alley between 1131 and 1133 South 2nd Street. Prior to 1891, there was a block of five wood frame…
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Byron Street
Byron Street was part of North Camden’s literary-themed Poet’s Row neighborhood, first documented in the 1890-1891 Camden City Directory. The streets, christened after illustrious English literary figures, extended east to west from North 2nd Street, northward from Erie Street. Byron Street, leading the way just north of Erie, was the first to be developed, followed…
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Caesar Campana aka Young O’Connor
Caesar Campana Sr. was born in Italy on May 13, 1903, to parents Peter and Theresa Campana. He began his boxing career at a young age and went on to compete professionally in and around Camden, using the ring name “Young O’Connor.” One of his opponents was Frank Guetherman, a fellow Camden boxer known by…
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Old Cooper Street
Reprinted from the series of stories of Camden’s earlier days, under the title Sixty Years in Camden County – Gosh! by Will Paul, appearing in The Community news, of Merchantville, NJ. In an earlier chapter I suggested that a young writer seeking a subject for a story could take any Camden street that leads to…
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Main Street
Main Street is a diagonal street situated in North Camden, running southeast from the intersection of State Street and Point Street. Its historical presence can be traced back to the Camden City Directory in 1878, where it was listed as starting from the entrance of the Vine Street Ferry. Samuel Cooper started to build a…
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William Penn Corson
William Penn Corson, commonly known as W. Penn Corson, was born on February 27, 1873, in Camden, New Jersey. He was the son of Elias Lake Corson, a sea captain who had commanded a vessel during the Civil War. At the time of the 1880 census, the Corson family resided at 442 Hartman Street, later…