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Yorkship Village

Two women in print dresses standing arm in arm in front of a large shingled house.
Historical Accounts

The Conley Family of Camden, NJ

A photographic record of the Conley family of Camden, New Jersey, who arrived in the late 1890s and were among the first families to move to Yorkship Village during World War I.

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People

John H. Carroll

John H. Carroll (1861–1932) operated Carroll's Hotel and saloon at South 3rd and Cherry streets in Camden, ran a horse-and-wagon stable and an excavating business that graded Yorkship Village, and was a longtime Fifth Ward Republican committeeman.

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1914 map of south Camden showing Brown Street
Streets

Brown Street (South)

Brown Street in Camden's Fourteenth Ward was one of two streets that carried that name. Shown on a 1914 map running east from Master Street to Newton Creek, south of Olive Street, it has no listed addresses in the 1924 Directory and does not appear on the 1946 map.

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