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South Camden

View of Camden Waterfront in 1850
Historical Accounts

Old Ferries - Annals of Camden NJ

Annals of Camden No 3 - Old Ferries - Camden NJ Download 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.

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General Gas Mantle Company - Jefferson Street - 1926
Streets

Arlington Street

Arlington Street in South Camden ran one block and virtually disappeared after demolition in 2004. The street was home to working-class families, the General Gas Mantle factory (which caused thorium contamination), and became an EPA Superfund site in 1996.

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People

Amanda Alloway

Amanda Alloway, who was born in New Jersey in November 1843, had a notable life deeply intertwined with the historical tapestry of Camden, New Jersey.

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Joey Allen Portrait 1936
People

Angelo Anthony Leveccia (aka Joey Allen)

JOEY ALLEN was the name that Angelo Anthony Levecchia boxed under from 1928 through 1943. He was born in Camden, New Jersey on November 12, 1912 to Anthony Levecchia and his wife, the former Anna Maria Onorati.

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Charles L Alcott Baseball Card
People

Charles L. Alcott

CHARLES L." SHAD" ALCOTT was born in New Jersey around 1857. The Census indicates July of 1858. Sorting him out can be confusing as there was a Charles M. Alcott, born February of 1857, who lived in Camden at the same time.

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Bernard Abraham Ahlberg, 1924
People

Bernard A. Ahlberg

BERNARD ABRAHAM AHLBERG was born September 18, 1858, in Sweden. He came to America at the age of 18, and moved to Philadelphia shortly afterwards, where he remained until 1907, when he came to Camden.

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Jane Kenny press conference at Arlington Street demolition — February 5, 2004
News Articles

Pace of Cleanup Worries Residents

As crews demolished radiation-contaminated rowhomes on Arlington Street in February 2004, Waterfront South residents told officials they feared a redevelopment plan would drive them from their longtime homes.

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Mayor City Aides to Confer Monday on Weed Removal
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Mayor, City Aides to Confer Monday on Weed Removal

Mayor Brunner called a July 1950 conference to coordinate city departments in clearing high grass and weeds from Camden — a campaign during which crews uncovered and destroyed more than 200 wild marijuana plants on a city lot at Chelton Avenue and Arlington Street.

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Injury Stock Photo
News Articles

Injured Players to be Feted by Dooley A.A.

All plans have been completed for the dance and floor show to be held Saturday by the Dooley Athletic Association , which will turn the proceeds over to the football players who were injured while playing with the South Camden club last Fall.

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News Articles

'Buck' Sage Held as 'Hit-Runner'

Detainer Lodged Against Sportsman in Shooting of Waterhouse A detainer against Russell "Buck" Sage , held in Gloucester on a hit-run charge, was lodged last night by Camden police, who claim the South Camden sportsman "knows more than he has told" of the shooting of Harry "Gyp" Waterhouse.

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Old Stocktons Three Parks Kept Police on Jump
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Old Stockton's Three Parks Kept Police Force on Jump

Sergeant Horner Recalls Days When Horse-Drawn Patrol Toted Woozy Celebrants From Moist Recreation Centers to City Hall East Camden used to have three parks "in the old days" — and to hear a veteran like Police Sergeant William C. Horner tell it — they certainly kept the police force "on its toes." Sergeant Horner, who has seen more than a quarter century of service on the police force in East Camden and is now head of the city missing persons bureau, often tells of those days.

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Bail is Denied Roxie Allen
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Bail Is Denied Roxie Allen in Robbery of 15 in Craps Game

Three Pals of Camden Boxer Also Jailed at Shore for Grand Jury Quartet Identified by Poolroom Owner Limp Betrays Fighter at Landisville - Says He Did Not Aid Holdup Identified as four of the five bandits who held up and robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom yesterday, Roxie Allen , well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths are under arrest today.

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Police Stock Photo
News Articles

Gangster Shot As Racketeers Open War Here

Gloucester Man Near Death After Attack at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue Felled Near Quarters of Camden Gamblers Brother of Frank Doris Accused After Police Round up 10 Men Shooting of an alleged racketeer at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, near the threshold of one of South Jersey's notorious reputed gambling joints threw Camden police into renewed warfare on gangdom yesterday.

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Michaels Anxious to Beat Spearing
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Michaels Anxious to Beat Spearing

Riverside Youngster Out to Erase Cabana Defeat; Spearing Has Iron Jaw The Joe Spearing -Joey Michaels bout, which is slated as the semi- windup to the Roxie Allen -Emory Cabana fight at the Public Service Park on Friday night, is attracting nearly as much interest as the wind-up.

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Spearing May Give Michaels Real Tilt
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Spearing May Give Michaels Real Tilt

East Camden Lightweight is Rapidly Developing Into Windup Performer Joe Spearing , of East Camden , who meets Joey Michaels, Riverside slugger in the eight-round semi-final to the Roxie Allen -Emory Cabana bout at Public Service Park on Friday night, is rapidly fighting his way into the windup class.

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Slot Machine Stock Photo
News Articles

Dealer Denies Thieves Took Slot Machine

Bertman Doubts His Story After He 'Shifts' Loot to Cigars Is liable to a fine on gambling machine Grand Jury Probe is Hinted by Judge - Reporter Takes Stand Lewis Shectman changed his story in police court today and declared that it was only a box of cigars, not a gambling machine that was stolen from his store, 708 Broadway, yesterday by two bandits.

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News Articles

Sergeant George Anderson Ill

Camden Courier - January 9, 1922 The many friends of Sergeant George W. Anderson of the Third District will be sorry indeed to learn that he is again seriously ill at his South Camde n home, 582 Clinton Street .

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News Articles

North Camden Hit by a Great Cyclone; Homes Wrecked

Hundreds of Houses Ruined by Violent Wind and Rain and two Persons May Die; Streets Strewn with Debris Two lives will probably be sacrificed, property valued at at least a hundred thousand dollars, was virtually destroyed and the northwest section of the city was laid in ruin when a storm of cyclonic intensity swept over Camden last night.

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News Articles

News and Incidents of a Day in Camden

Philadelphia Inquirer - March 1, 1905 Attacked at Third and Mickle street s, Camden, late Monday night by a man, Mrs. Bessie O. Day, of Seventh and Clinton streets , had her clothing cut in strips.

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