Streets
Morse Street
Morse Street in East Camden was named for Henry G. Morse, founder and president of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, whose Camden shipyard led to the creation of Yorkship Village.
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Watson Street
Streets
20th Street
Twentieth Street runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden, from Harrison Avenue to Bank Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. In 1954, fourteen homes with South 20th Street addresses were added when McGuire Gardens public housing was built; they were demolished and redeveloped in the 1990s.
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Stockton Park
Stockton Park, a 90-acre rifle range and pleasure resort in the Wrightsville section of East Camden, NJ, was organized in 1866 by Civil War veterans.
News Articles
‘Stocking’ Bandit Hunt Underway
Police searched for two stocking-masked bandits who held up the night clerk of the Oasis Motel on Admiral Wilson Boulevard and fled toward Park Boulevard; Steve's Tavern on Fillmore Street was also burglarized.
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Authority Acquires 1st Parcel Toward Housing Project
The Camden Housing Authority acquired the first parcel of land for its 368-unit low-rent East Camden housing development, presenting a check to Mr. and Mrs. John Dyer for their home at 2120 Berwick Street.
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Police Raid Five Camden Places in Weekend Cleanup of Rum Sellers
Police raided five alleged speakeasies over the weekend, seizing whisky in four South Camden places, including six jugs at Samuel Arnow's grocery at 534 Kaighn Avenue, and arresting ten men at Mrs. Carrie Becker's home on North 33rd Street.
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Blank Cartridges Wound Two
William Thompson, 25, of 2128 Watson Street, and Harold Gendolf, 12, of 905 Woodland Avenue, were treated with anti-tetanic serum at Cooper Hospital after being wounded by blank cartridges.