BAXTER
STREET was officially known as Newton Street as late as 1878, and
locally known as "Hog Alley" as late as 1894. As part of an
ordinance that took effect early in 1882, Newton Street became Baxter
Street. It appears to have been named after John Baxter, who at one time
had a hides and tallow business on the southwest corner of South
6th Street and Kaighn
Avenue. The 700 block of Baxter Street still exists as of 2017, as the overgrown alley running from South 7th Street to Maurice Street bordering the Harmony House Apartments. The 900 block has been completely razed and paved over. Satellite images show faint signs of the 1000 block of Baxter Street for a half-block east of South 10th Street. Baxter Street west of Mt. Ephraim Avenue toward South 10th still exists as an unnamed alley. There are no active Baxter Street addresses active as of this writing. Baxter Street was for decades notorious as a haven of illegal behavior... disorderly houses, gambling, drugs, speakeasies and the sight of more than a few shootings and stabbings. Many of these were reported without house numbers. News article found without house numbers are included on this page by date, below. The immediate neighborhood of South 7th and Baxter remains a "hot spot" in the 2020s,,,,,,,,,.S |
Do you have an Baxter Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here. Phil
Cohen |
700 Block of Baxter Street |
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700 Baxter Street 1949 Frank Banks Camden Courier-Post |
701 Baxter Street 1890-1891 Samuel Walker |
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701 Baxter Street 1917-1918
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701 Baxter Street
1924 Mrs. William B.
Moore |
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702 Baxter Street 1895 Mary Walker
924Camden Daily Telegram Elizabeth Nevis Click
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703 Baxter Street 1890-1891 Mrs.
Harriett Primrose |
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703 Baxter Street 1923 Camden Courier-Post Walter "Kentucky Rosebud" Edgerton
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703 Baxter Street 1924-1940 Joseph Silva |
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704 Baxter Street
1882 Camden Daily Courier Charles Bruce |
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705 Baxter Street Camden Post George Horneff |
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705 Baxter Street 1896 Camden Daily Courier Samuel Albert - Kaighn
Avenue Edward S. Hyde |
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705 Baxter Street
1924 Benjamin Gould |
707 Baxter Street
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707 Baxter Street 1917-1918 Private
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709 Baxter Street
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710 Baxter Street 1888-1889 Frederick
Rhones |
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713 Baxter Street 1887-1888 Augustus
Stokes |
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717 Baxter Street 1921 Rebecca Baylor Camden
Post-Telegram John
Kowal - John
Skolski |
719 Baxter Street 1930 Frank M. Bank |
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719 Baxter Street 1887-1888 Isabella
Freeman |
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721 Baxter Street 1890-1891 Benjamin
Eldridge |
723 Baxter Street 1888-1889 Jesse Fussell |
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725 Baxter Street 1887-1888 Mark C.
Overton |
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Intersection of Baxter Street & Maurice Street | |
727 Baxter Street 1887-1891 Allen
Campbell |
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728 Baxter Street 1890-1891 Mrs. Lavinia
Fussell |
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729 Baxter Street 1887-1888 David Kelley |
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1902 Vacant Camden Daily Courier George W. Jessup -
Arthur Stanley Click
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729 Baxter Street
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729 Baxter Street 1928 Donald Pollard Camden Courier-Post Mrs.
Rose Fanelle
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730 Baxter Street 1890-1891 Isaac S.
Wheeler |
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731 Baxter Street 1887-1888 Jacob Fisher |
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731 Baxter Street 1911 John Gideon Camden Post-Telegram Click
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731 Baxter Street
1924 Mrs. Jane Fisher |
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737 Baxter Street 1904 |
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737 Baxter Street 1910-1911 Trenton
NJ True American
The
stabbing victim was John Gideon.
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737 Baxter Street 1924 William Johnson |
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740 Baxter Street 1887-1888 William Saunders |
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741 Baxter Street 1917 Herbert Lamb Philadelphia Inquirer Harry Cross |
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741 Baxter Street 1921 Rosetta Blue Camden
Post-Telegram John
Kowal - John
Skolski |
741 Baxter Street 1924 Tabor Boston |
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Intersection of Baxter Street & Clover Street |
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744 Baxter Street 1924 Charles Bird |
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746 Baxter Street 1924 Hannah Fisher |
900 Block of Baxter Street |
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911 Baxter Street
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913 Baxter Street
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918 Baxter Street
Camden Daily Telegram
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922 Baxter Street
Camden
Post Alexander
Briscoe
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934 Baxter Street
Camden
Daily Telegram Click on Image to Read |
1000 Block of Baxter Street |
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1005 Baxter Street 1924 |
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1009 Baxter Street
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1024 Baxter Street 1924 Mrs. Hattie
Pollard |
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1032 Baxter Street 1924 Abraham Singleton |
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Camden Daily Telegram Lavinia Tunnell |
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Camden Daily Telegram Lulu Roberts - Mary Jones |
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Camden Post Marwood "Sweeney"
Derrickson
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Camden Post Minnie Depew - Clara Green -
Rachel Gibbs |
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Camden Daily Telegram Sumner Derrickson - Charles
Taylor
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Camden
Daily Courier February 10, 1900 Ernest Waples
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Camden Post-Telegram * February 10, 1900 | |
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Ernest
Waples - Baxter
Street - J.
Fred Voight - F.
Morse Archer - Mary Douglass George Donovan - Julia Mason - E.A. Armstrong |
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Camden
Post-Telegram July 2, 1900 Baxter
Street |
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Philadelphia Inquirer - December 29, 1900 | |
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Arthur Stanley - Charles W. Noyes O. Glen Stackhouse - Pearl Welcome Lizzie Purnell - Charles Green Maud Moore, alias Givens Jennie Wilson, alias Rose Mitchell Mary Susan Jones - William Lockman John Eckert - Kate Eckert Robert Matthews - Norman Simmons Maggie Dilks Baxter
Street - Sycamore
Street
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Philadelphia Inquirer - December 29, 1902 |
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Arthur
Stanley -
William Rollins - Benjamin Counsellor - Walter Chambers - Frank Smother
- Hiawatha Moore Baxter Street - Sycamore Street |
Philadelphia Inquirer - May 25, 1903 |
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Arthur
Stanley -
Edward
Hyde - O. Glenn
Stackhouse Baxter Street - Edward Jackson - Mamie Douglas - Louis Smith Benjamin Jenkins - Mary Burk - Ida Phillips |
Camden Morning Post - December 12, 1930 |
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Clifford
Baldwin - Samuel
M. Shay - William
T. Feitz - August Reihm - Floyd Alter Bell Frank. M. Bank - Van Buren Street - Baxter Street - 600 Kaighn Avenue - Railroad Avenue South 6th Street - Van Hook Street - Star Beef Company |