Streets
21st Street
Twenty-First Street runs through Cramer Hill and into East Camden, extending from Harrison Avenue to Federal Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory.
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William Cooper
Streets
2nd Street
2nd Street extends north-south between Front Street and 3rd Street, running parallel to the Delaware River until Mechanic Street. In the early 1970s, several buildings were cleared on the east side of North 2nd Street below Mickle Street to make way for the Royal Court townhomes and Mickle Tower senior citizens apartment building.
News Articles
Like a Ghost at the Feast
A 1926 retrospective recalling William Cooper's 1906 laudanum suicide in Cole's barroom on Federal Street — 20 years after he sat dead in a chair for six hours while a pinochle game continued around him.
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Police Seek Writer of Note Found on Suicide
William Cooper of 27 North Twenty-first Street died of laudanum poisoning at Cooper Hospital; police sought the writer of a mysterious note found in his pocket after he sat unnoticed for hours in a Federal Street saloon.