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Sylvan Street runs west from South 10th Street for three and one-half blocks, ending a short distance west of South 7th Street, one block south of Woodland Avenue and three blocks north of Morgan Street in Camden, New Jersey.
Auburn Street is a small street that runs from Broadway to South Sixth Street between Benson and Washington Streets. All 26 homes were seized by eminent domain and demolished in 2001.
Bulson Street runs east from Broadway to South 11th Street alongside the railroad tracks, named after 19th-century farmer Gilbert Bulson. At one time the tracks were at street level; in modern times the overpass has been known as "the hump."
America Road is a street in two sections: one running from West Octagon Road east to Yorkship Square, the other running from the opposite side of Yorkship Square eastward, ending at East Octagon Road.
WILLIAM C. AITKEN was born around 1846. He first came to America in 1869. He moved to Camden in the early 1880s. He was active as a builder in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Peter Pitner, 72, of Camden, a Navy veteran of World War II, longtime Fiber-Metal Co. worker and union secretary, and 44-year member of St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church, died at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center.
Death notice for Mary (nee Zurinski) Pitner, 60, wife of Peter Pitner of Camden, who died suddenly December 31, 1980, with funeral arrangements at Foster's Funeral Home and St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church.
Police identified the man found shot to death on a vacant lot off the 600 block of Woodland Avenue as James A. Williams, 40, of 808 Sylvan Street, in November 1974.
Camden police questioned suspects in the firebombing of the William Knoth Sr. home at 976 Woodland Avenue, where William Knoth Jr. and his mother, Martha, escaped serious injury when a bottle of gasoline or kerosene exploded in the living room.
Fire Marshal Harold Pike enlisted the Camden detective bureau to investigate the death of Mrs. Elizabeth McLeish, 37, found burned to death in her Woodland Avenue home in November 1971.
Charles N. Jester of 534 Woodland Avenue, a retired boilermaker and member of Boilermakers Local 803, died after a long illness. Services were set for the Frank J. Leonard Funeral Home, with burial in Locustwood Memorial Park.
The Highland Park Rescue Squad saved four Camden boys from Newton Creek at Gloucester City after their cut-loose rowboat drifted; two, including Larry Ludwick of 692 Woodland Avenue, were stuck waist deep in mud.
Pilot William A. Kreusser, 26, of 873 Fairview Street survived when his light monoplane tore down power lines and crashed in front of 843 Sylvan Street in South Camden on September 30, 1953.
A daughter, Marie Frances, was born December 14 at West Jersey Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Pitner of 852 Woodland Avenue; a son, Don Michael, was born the same day to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Di Camillo of 1029 Monitor Road.
Frank Zurinski, 68, of 852 Woodland Avenue, a retired Baldwin-Lima Locomotive Co. employee and Camden resident for 37 years, died at home. A Solemn High Mass of requiem was set for St. Michael's Ukrainian R. C. Church, with burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Judge Frank Katzenbach ordered two New York Shipyard employees, Edwin F. Duffy and Emerson Townsend, to pay their wives $7 a week. Duffy's wife, Elizabeth, lived at 692 Woodland Avenue; Townsend's wife, Lena, at 2870 Kansas Road.
Funeral notice for Mrs. Harriet Letitia Carlson, 62, of 548 Woodland Avenue, with services at the Blake and Myrtetus Funeral Home on Collings Road and burial in New Camden Cemetery. She was survived by her husband, Edwin W.
Two masked bandits, one armed, held up a gasoline station at Mt. Ephraim and Ferry Avenues and fled with $20. Attendant James Ritter, 21, of 531 Woodland Avenue, told police he was closing up when they appeared.
Advisory Master Knight recommended divorce decrees for Al Daidone, whose roller-skating child bride thought him "too old," for Mrs. Clara Zoeller Wall Safford of Atlantic Avenue, and for Mrs. Edna N. Richards McNeece of 728 Woodland Avenue.
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Landon, 50, a lifelong Camden resident, died suddenly at her home at 524 Woodland Avenue. She was survived by her husband, Howard Landon, and a daughter, Henrietta; burial was to be in Evergreen Cemetery.
Camden Courier-Post - October 16, 1933 Retired Builder Dies at Penn Street Home; Resident Here for 50 Years The funeral of William C. Aitken , 87, retired builder, who died Saturday at his home at 421 Penn street , will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Camden Courier-Post - October 16, 1933 The funeral of William C. Aitken , 87, retired builder, who died Saturday at his home at 421 Penn street , will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Mr. Aitken was one of the best known builders of his day.
John F. Magonagle, 72, of 927 Woodland Avenue, suffered a fatal heart attack while at work at the New York Shipyard. Coroner Arthur H. Holl issued the death certificate.
Kearsarge Building and Loan Association offers stock shares to parents of babies born in Camden's Fourteenth Ward in April, including Jean Marie Fanslow of 1659 Alabama Road and William Richard Hook of 1577 Alabama Road. Camden Courier-Post, June 10, 1933.
Funeral notice for John H. Brown, 44, of 549 Woodland Avenue, with services at the parlors of Frank J. Leonard, 1451 Broadway. He was survived by his widow, Mary L. Brown.
Marriage license notices from Camden and Media, Pennsylvania, including Michael Duffy of Philadelphia and Catherine Sharp of 1138 Thirty-first Street, Camden, October 1930.
City detectives questioned three youths believed responsible for a series of robberies; Francis Smith of 1120 Locust Street and Raymond Walker of 747 Woodland Avenue were arrested by Policeman James McTaggart at Broadway and Atlantic Avenue.
Eugene Marshall, 21, of 404 Jasper Street, admitted he was the man Camden police sought after an anonymous letter named him the "phantom sniper," but charged he was framed by an enemy he believed to be the real sniper. The same day a fire-alarm box at Kaighn Avenue and Hyde Park was drilled, and a weekend shot narrowly missed Joseph Carone.
Peter Iverson, a 26-year-old Norwegian engineer in the transport service living on Woodland Avenue, was naturalized by Judge Kates in Camden, with the government's consent, before his vessel sailed.
Young John Kovasthik of 902 Woodland Avenue was fatally injured by an auto truck at Eighth and Sylvan Streets. The driver, Martin Flame of Philadelphia, was held on a manslaughter charge.
City Council's Fire Committee approved Russell Bowen of 827 Woodland Avenue and Julius Hubert of 16 Jasper Street as firemen; both went on duty at No. 3 Engine House.
Twenty-two people were hurt, two probably fatally, when the body of a Pensauken-line trolley jumped its trucks at Forty-seventh Street and Maple Avenue. The motorman, Percy Williams, 37, of 688 Woodland Avenue, was among the injured.
A new anthrax case struck John Ahearn, 17, of 1034 Lawrence Street, a leather worker at a Camden kid plant. The disease had killed Harry Cramford, 37, of 741 Woodland Avenue, earlier that week.
1917 World War I draft registration card of John H. Dilmore, 27, an engineer for the Camden Ice Co. living at 902 Woodland Avenue, Camden.
William Hurst, 9, of Woodland Avenue was struck by a Reading Railway express from Atlantic City at the Eighth Street grade crossing while playing with companions, and died on the way to Cooper Hospital.
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.
Three-month-old Clarence Baker of 710 Woodland Avenue was taken dying of spinal meningitis to Cooper Hospital, and his father, Anthony Baker, was arrested by Detective Brothers on an aunt's story that he had thrown the child on the floor.
Dogs sent George Farmer, 46 years old, of 978 Woodland Avenue, and George Zimmerman, 5 years old, of 564 Auburn Street, to Cooper Hospital. Farmer was bitten on the arm, while the boy had his wrist torn.
Mrs. Sadie Costell, a widow living on Woodland Avenue, held under bail with Benjamin Goldthrope on a charge made by his wife, was released on her own recognizance because she had small children who needed her care.
Seven-year-old Robert Bell of 682 Woodland Avenue was in critical condition at Cooper Hospital after his clothing caught fire while he was playing with matches.
Camden police spent two hours hunting a nurse thought to have run off with the two-year-old child of Mrs. Harry Schellberg of 690 Woodland Avenue, until word came that the nurse had returned after a night at a friend's home.
Mrs. Amelia Fisher, 47, of 947 Woodland Avenue, was struck by an Atlantic City Railroad express near Broadway and Bulson Street while picking coal with her three children; she escaped with a back cut, and passengers showered the children with coins.
Charles Larsen, 16, of Eighth Street and Woodland Avenue, fell into Big Timber Creek near Clements' Bridge while fishing and was pulled to shore with a pole by his cousin John.
A defective flue caused a fire at the home of Ola Olsen, 765 Woodland Avenue, doing $500 in damage.
John Jamison, 20, of 680 Woodland Avenue, a pitcher, broke his arm above the elbow while throwing a curve ball during a game at Seventh and Fairview Streets. Cooper Hospital doctors said a sudden twist caused the fracture.
Mary McDonald of Ferry Avenue and Mechanic Street fell from the step at 712 Woodland Avenue while returning a call, fractured her right ankle and was admitted to Cooper Hospital.
Death notice for Thomas Whitzell, 76, husband of Ann Whitzell, who died January 3, 1899. His funeral was to be held from the home of his son-in-law, David V. Smith, at 741 Woodland Avenue, with interment at Evergreen Cemetery.