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Viola Street

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.

November 5, 2026·14 min read

Salem Street from Ferry Avenue - 2004-02-22

Streets

Salem Street

Salem Street is a one-block street running from Ferry Avenue south to Viola Street. Homes at 1831 through 1841 Salem Street first appear in the 1890-1891 Camden City Directory.

October 15, 2023·2 min read

Camden Family Wash Laundry at 1037–1039 North 6th Street, Camden NJ

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6th Street

Sixth Street runs with few interruptions from the Delaware River to Morgan Street, virtually the length of the city, from North Camden south almost all the way to Gloucester City.

June 30, 2022·31 min read

Abate death notice for Pauline U. Abate, Camden Courier-Post, March 26, 1968.

Abate, Pauline U.

Death notice for Pauline U. Abate (nee Priola), 45, wife of Vincent Abate of 420 Viola Street, with her funeral from the Troncone Funeral Home and requiem Mass at Sacred Heart R.C. Church.

March 26, 1968·1 min read

Guilty Plea Entered In Dice Game Killing, Camden Courier-Post, April 24, 1962

Guilty Plea Entered In Dice Game Killing

James Walker pleaded guilty to the fatal shooting of Herbert L. Abbott of 1243 South 3rd Street, killed during an argument over a dice game at 211 Line Street in May 1961.

April 24, 1962·1 min read

Camden Fire Alarms list, Camden Courier-Post, March 26, 1957.

Camden Fire Alarms

Courier-Post list of Camden fire alarms from midnight Sunday to midnight Monday, including fires on Stevens and Benson Streets, a rubbish fire on North 3rd Street and an auto fire at 4th and Viola Streets.

March 26, 1957·1 min read

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

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.

September 15, 1951·1 min read

Marriage Licenses — Camden Courier-Post, August 12, 1950

Marriage Licenses

Marriage licenses issued in Camden on August 12, 1950, including Robert E. Vohringer of 28 North 30th Street and Bertha M. Selah of 332 North Second Street.

August 11, 1950·1 min read

Mayor City Aides to Confer Monday on Weed Removal

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.

July 22, 1950·3 min read

William E. Stanton funeral notice with portrait, Trenton Evening Times, April 1, 1949.

William E. Stanton

Funeral notice for William E. Stanton, 23, who died after an automobile accident; his wife lived at 336 Viola Street, and the requiem mass was set for Sacred Heart Church, Camden. He served with the Army in Europe and was awarded the Purple Heart.

April 1, 1949·1 min read

Cops Seek Owners of Chance Boards, Camden Courier-Post, April 6, 1940.

Cops Seek Owners of Chance Boards

Acting on Commissioner Mary W. Kobus' orders, Camden detectives seized 60,000 illegal punchboards in a raid on a three-story building on the south side of Viola Street and searched for their owners.

April 6, 1940·2 min read

Dozen Battles Draw 1000 as Victory March Pays Serenade, Camden Courier-Post, May 17, 1934.

Dozen Battles Draw 1000 as Victory March Pays Serenade

A victory parade after a bitter Eighth Ward Republican primary set off a street riot at Sixth and Viola Streets in front of William Tansky Jr.'s saloon; a boy was hit by a ricocheting bullet and detectives questioned the rival faction leaders.

May 17, 1934·4 min read

Games Wanted column, Camden Courier-Post, June 3, 1932, with amateur baseball clubs seeking opponents.

Games Wanted

Courier-Post sports listing of Camden-area amateur baseball clubs seeking games, among them the Sterling A. C., which gave its contact as Albert Flacco of 332 Viola Street.

June 3, 1932·2 min read

3 Youths Held as Blaze Razes Grain Plant of Sitley and Son

Damage in Fire at Sixth and Bulson Streets Estimated at $45,000 Four Men Risk Lives to Save Two Horses Boys Believed by Police Probers to Have Been Smoking in Building Three boys are being held and two others are sought in the investigation of the $45.000 fire which today destroyed the warehouse of Sitley & Son , wholesale hardware, roofing material and grain dealers at Sixth and Bulson streets.

April 18, 1930·5 min read

Newspaper clipping "Louis Cavallo Marries Miss Jennie Maroccia," Courier-Post, June 27, 1929.

Louis Cavallo Marries Miss Jennie Maroccia

More than 1500 guests attended the reception at the Sons of Italy Hall after Miss Jennie Maroccia of South Third Street married Louis Cavallo of 314 Kaighn Avenue at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.

June 27, 1929·1 min read

Firemen pour water on burning tire warehouse, Division Street, Camden, July 27, 1925

Four Firemen Are Trapped in Collapse of Brick Wall

A Camden Evening Courier report of July 27, 1925 on a spectacular fire at the Bantivoglio & Son junk warehouse at 252 Division Street, in which a collapsing brick wall buried four firemen of Engine Company No. 7, including Captain Watkin.

July 27, 1925·6 min read

Slayer Is Given Long Prison Term, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 6, 1921.

Slayer Is Given Long Prison Term

Michael Czulak of 414 Viola Street, who pleaded non vult to killing Peter Lukasiewicz in a fight at a christening party at 1911 Fillmore Street, was sentenced by Justice Katzenbach to ten to thirty years at hard labor.

July 6, 1921·1 min read

Blames Chauffeur for Death of Ten, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 24, 1920, on a Camden grade-crossing bus wreck.

Blames Chauffeur for Death of Ten

Coroner David Bentley blamed jitney driver Vincenzo Strattoni of 332 Viola Street for the Camden grade-crossing wreck in which a Pennsylvania Railroad express struck his motor bus, killing ten and injuring five; Mayor Ellis ordered an investigation.

August 24, 1920·5 min read

Arrest Committee Aiding Prisoners, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 23, 1920.

Arrest Committee Aiding Prisoners

Fourteen Camden Poles who came to police headquarters to protest the arrest of brothers Joseph and Michael Sukufonitz, charged with inciting to riot at a Bolshevik street meeting at Sixth and Viola Streets, were themselves arrested.

August 23, 1920·2 min read

Here and There in Camden, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 23, 1918.

Here and There in Camden

Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of March 23, 1918: shipyard worker William Briederback of 434 Viola Street burned about the eyes, William Rovner of 1117 Broadway overcome by gasoline fumes, and a man held on a lead-pipe theft charge.

March 23, 1918·1 min read

Here and There in Camden, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 12, 1917.

Here and There in Camden

Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of October 12, 1917: an address at North Baptist Church, the funeral of Mrs. Anna Greenan, wife of Hugh Greenan, from 412 Viola Street, and a Y.M.C.A. service at Forest Hill Park.

October 12, 1917·1 min read

Here and There in Camden, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 29, 1917.

Here and There in Camden

Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of May 29, 1917: a woman jailed for breaking a bottle over another's head, a railroad engineer's funeral, a German-American flag raising at Fourth and Viola Streets with an address by William Sangtinette, and a patriotic meeting.

May 29, 1917·1 min read

Louis Allison Dies in Camden, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 1916.

Louis Allison Dies in Camden

Louis Allison, 52, grand architect of the New Jersey lodge of the Independent Order of Mechanics, retired Atlantic City Railroad conductor and owner of a large newspaper route, died of pneumonia at his home, 698 Viola Street.

October 18, 1916·1 min read

Arrested as Fugitive, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 20, 1916.

Arrested as Fugitive

Wilson Cresswell, 34, of 632 Viola Street, a fugitive for seven weeks, was locked up by Detective Fitzsimmons pending his removal to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he was wanted for wife desertion.

March 20, 1916·1 min read

Born With 2 Heads, 3 Arms, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 9, 1915.

Born With 2 Heads, 3 Arms

Coroner Bushey investigated the death of a newborn girl with two heads and three arms at the home of Mrs. Drany Zaneskie of 647 Viola Street, Camden; death was due to natural causes.

November 9, 1915·1 min read

Clipping: Camden Has Building Boom

Camden Has Building Boom

Inspector Day issued permits for thirty-eight Camden dwellings, including eleven on Viola Street, eleven on South Fourth Street and eight on Winslow Street for the Guarantee Realty Company, plus homes on Thirty-second and Florence Streets.

March 26, 1915·1 min read

Sends Trio to Jail, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 19, 1915: Recorder Stackhouse jails three people over a fight.

Sends Trio to Jail

Recorder Stackhouse sent Mrs. Frances Wienefski of the boathouse colony at the foot of Viola Street, and Joseph Wachiski and Stanley Rubinski, who had been fighting over her, to jail for twenty days.

March 19, 1915·1 min read

Mother Buried With Her Daughter In Her Arms, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 4, 1914.

Mother Buried With Her Daughter In Her Arms

Mrs. Mary F. Mackin of 432 Viola Street was buried with her six-month-old daughter Mary in her arms; both died of pneumonia within hours of each other, and interment was in the New Camden Cemetery.

March 4, 1914·1 min read

Death notice of Catharine A. Croker, wife of James P. Croker, Philadelphia Inquirer, December 10, 1912.

Catharine A. Croker Death Notice

Philadelphia Inquirer death notice for Catharine A. Croker, 45, wife of James P. Croker, with her funeral from the family residence on Viola Street, high mass at the Church of the Sacred Heart and interment at St. Mary's, Gloucester.

December 10, 1912·1 min read

Clipping: Street Ends Sought for City

Street Ends Sought for City

City Solicitor E.G.C. Bleakly moved to acquire Delaware River street ends for Camden, filing Supreme Court suits over the ends of Jackson, Vanhook, Jasper, Emerald, Viola, and Winslow streets near Jefferson Street.

February 4, 1912·1 min read

Twice Tried Suicide, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 10, 1911.

Twice Tried Suicide

After a quarrel, Daniel Burns, 33, of 412 Viola Street twice tried to end his life by inhaling gas and was saved by physicians at Cooper Hospital.

April 10, 1911·1 min read

Bad Fall From Battleship, Philadelphia Inquirer, January 26, 1911.

Bad Fall From Battleship

Arnold Pascoe, 22, of 434 Viola Street fell thirty feet from a battleship at the New York Shipbuilding plant and was treated at Cooper Hospital for a fractured skull, a compound fracture of an arm and internal injuries.

January 26, 1911·1 min read

Camden News Notes, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 7, 1909.

Camden News Notes

Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of August 7, 1909: Humphrey Lynch of 410 Viola Street treated for a Fourth of July cannon-cracker wound, a drowning in Cooper Creek, a car-barn injury, and the deaths of Benjamin Derndinger and George Westcoat.

August 7, 1909·1 min read

One-sentence item, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 24, 1908, on sixteen dwellings begun on Viola Street.

Sixteen Dwellings on Viola Street

Drs. Donges and Grant E. Kirk began building sixteen dwellings on Viola Street near Broadway, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on November 24, 1908.

November 24, 1908·1 min read

John Pugh's Body Found in Creek, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 20, 1902.

John Pugh's Body Found in Creek

Two boatmen found the body of John Pugh, 65, missing from 439 Viola Street, in Newton Creek with a paving block tied to his neck; his son-in-law Benjamin E. Mellor identified him and the coroner issued a certificate of suicide.

October 20, 1902·2 min read

Camden Citizen Has Disappeared, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 1902, with portrait of John Pugh.

Camden Citizen Has Disappeared

John Pugh, 65, of 439 Viola Street, father-in-law of former City Council president Benjamin E. Mellor, disappeared from his home early in the morning, and police could not find him.

October 19, 1902·1 min read

Held on Riot Charge, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 5, 1902

Held on Riot Charge

Chester Gandy, Walter Bunting and Ernest Schuesse were arrested in Camden charged with inciting to riot after a disturbance at an Indian show at Broadway and Viola Street.

August 5, 1902·1 min read

Reception at 439 Viola Street, Philadelphia Inquirer, February 16, 1902.

Reception at 439 Viola Street

Mrs. Elizabeth Pugh of 439 Viola Street gave a reception for Mrs. Benjamin E. Mellor, Mrs. Thomas Harmon and Mrs. Mary Bakie of Cincinnati, sisters reunited after twenty-five years.

February 16, 1902·1 min read

Child burned in bonfire, neighbors allege neglect, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 11, 1898.

Child Neglected, Injured by Fire

Two-year-old Mary Kauffman of Viola Street and Ferry Avenue was admitted to Cooper Hospital with burns from a bonfire, and neighbors contended that the child was neglected by her parents.

September 11, 1898·1 min read