Camden Streets - Beach Street

BEACH STREET is a little street in North Camden, that runs, or rather ran, from York to Erie Street, just west of Point Street. The street is listed in the 1878 City Directory, however, houses first appear in City Directories in 1890. In 1947 there were only three houses listed on Beach Street, 930, 932, and 934.

Around 2000 Beach Street was 'disconnected' from Erie Street when Delaware Avenue was extended to Erie. While street signs still remain for "York & Beach" and "Erie & Beach", the street itself was made impassable. There are no houses that remain standing on Beach Street, only the house at 8 York Street, which stands opposite the intersection of York and Beach.

Do you have an Beach Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here.

Phil Cohen

900 Block of Beach Street
	Corner of Beach Street & York Street 1890-1891 Frank Lee Dickinson & Charles G. Dickinson grocer's supplies
	Corner of Beach Street & North Street 1890-1891 Joseph Baymore sparmaker
	924 Beach Street 1890-1891 Charles J. Keller grocer 1900 William H. Posh 1912 Albert W. Miller 1924 Gone
	926 Beach Street 1890-1891 Charles E. Bulman engineer 1890-1891 William McClain driver 1890-1891 Mrs. Alice WIlliams widow of Edward Williams 1900 Abraham L. Cappon 1924 Mrs. Carrie Gross 1940 Gone
	928 Beach Street 1900 Isaac Broadwater 1924-1929 Walter DeFord
MRS. MARTHA M. DE FORD Funeral services for Mrs. Martha M. De Ford, 59, of 928 Beach Street, who died Monday, will be held at 11. a. m. tomorrow at the Schroeder funeral chapel, Broadway and Royden Street. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.	928 Beach Street 1933 Martha M. DeFord Camden Courier-Post June 14, 1933
	928 Beach Street 1940 Gone
	930 Beach Street 1890-1891 Emil Schott machinist 1900 John C. Hinkle 1924 Peter W. Kane 1940-1947 Gustav Hartman 1957 Damaged By Fire December 12, 1957 Camden Courier-Post December 13, 1957
	932 Beach Street 1890-1891 Albert Miller junk 1890-1891 Isaac Miller
	932 Beach Street 1900 Harry B. Hale 1924 Helen Megill
	932 Beach Street 1940 Walter Blake 1947 Walter Blechniak
	934 Beach Street 1890-1891 Jacob Canning shoemaker 1890-1891 Thomas Foster gardener 1924 Harry Smith 1940 Harry Burke 1947 William C. Long 1960s-1970s The Stevenson Family
	Corner of Beach Street & Erie Street

I had a friend named Billy Stevenson who lived in the first house on Beach Street from Erie Street (934). Well he was upstairs sitting on the toilet when the house next door blew up from a gas leak. The walls on his house were blown away too. The whole upstairs to his house was gone except the bathroom and him still sitting on the toilet (in shock} but not even a scratch on him, The Fire Department had to rescue him.

Floyd Miller Jr.
June 2004

Do you have an Beach Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here.

Phil Cohen