NEW STREET runs from 432 South 7th Street to Trenton Avenue, bisected about halfway between the two bay an alley known as Edmunds Street. The rear of the houses on the north side of New Street are open to Blaine Street, which runs roughly parallel to New Street. The houses on new Street appear to have been built in 1887 and 1888, and were built from South 7th Street towards Trenton Avenue. The first 20 houses on the south side of the street, 700 through 738, appear in the 1887-1888 City Directory, while 740 to 746 New Street first appear in the 1888-1889 Directory. On the north side of New Street, the houses between South 7th and Edmunds Streets, 701 to 719, are listed in the 1887-1888 Directory, while 721 to 733 first appear in Camden's city directories in the 1888-1889 edition. Oddly enough, the last house on the north side of New Street, 735, does not appear until after the 1890-1891 Directory was compiled. The homes on New Street were first occupied for the most part by tradesman and working people. Two early residents gave their occupations as "sea captain". The notable exceptions were journalist James M. Fitzgerald, and Edward Fendall Lummis, a civil engineer. Lummis lived at 716 New Street from 1887 into the 1900s, while Fitzgerald, is listed on New Street only in the 1888-1889 Directory, at 731 New Street. James M. Fitzgerald is best remembered perhaps as the co-founder in February of 1886 of The Evening Telegram, a newspaper which later became the Post-Telegram and in time the Courier-Post. He also founded Camden's first morning daily, in 1889, the short-lived Morning News and General Advertiser. |
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1946 Map of Camden New Street runs from South 7th Street east to Trenton Avenue, which runs diagonally northwest to southeast, west of Haddon Avenue, in middle right side of the map |
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700 Block of New Street | |
700 New Street | |
701 New Street | |
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702
New Street
1915 Michael Egan Philadelphia Inquirer |
703 New Street | |
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704
New Street
1913 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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705
New Street
1925 |
706 New Street | |
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707
New Street
1917 John F. Stanton |
WOMAN
SHOUTS MURDER AND POLICE RAID HOUSE
Charged with allowing disorderly persons to congregate in her home,
Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes, 519 Newton Avenue, was fined $25 by Police
Judge Lewis Liberman yesterday. |
707
New Street
Edward
Werner |
707
New Street
The William Fraction Sr. Family |
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708 New Street | |
709
New Street
Raymond M. Haines Family |
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709 New Street |
710 New Street | |
711 New Street | |
712 New Street | |
713 New Street | |
714 New Street | |
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715
New Street
December 12, 1957 Camden Courier-Post |
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716
New Street
Edward F. Lummis |
717 New Street | |
718
New Street
1887-1890 |
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718 New Street | |
719 New Street | |
Intersection of Edmunds Street & New Street | |
720 New Street | |
721 New Street | |
722 New Street | |
723
New Street
1920s-1960s |
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724 New Street | |
725 New Street | |
726 New Street | |
727 New Street | |
728 New Street | |
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729
New Street
Camden Courier-Post Mary Hoffman |
730 New Street | |
731
New Street
James M. Fitzgerald |
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732
New Street
1915 Thomas Egan Philadelphia Inquirer |
732 New Street | |
733 New Street | |
734 New Street | |
735 New Street | |
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736
New Street
1941 Camden Courier-Post Howard Truax |
738 New Street | |
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740
New Street
1920s-1970s Photograph Taken December 22, 2005 |
742 New Street | |
744 New Street | |
745 New Street | |
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746
New Street
Photograph Taken December 22, 2005 |
Intersection of Trenton Avenue & New Street |
Camden Courier-Post * August 6, 1936 |
WOMAN
SHOUTS MURDER AND POLICE RAID HOUSE
Charged with allowing disorderly persons to congregate in her home,
Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes, 519 Newton Avenue, was fined $25 by Police
Judge Lewis Liberman yesterday. |