Camden Streets - New Street

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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Phil Cohen

700 Block of New Street
	700 New Street
	701 New Street
	702 New Street 1915 Michael Egan Philadelphia Inquirer November 21, 1915
	703 New Street
	704 New Street 1913 John Stanton & Family John & Margaret Stanton Philadelphia Inquirer December 29, 1913
	705 New Street 1925 William H. Green
	706 New Street
	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. She was arrested at 3:00 AM after a call was sent to police headquarters by neighbors, that a woman had screamed "murder" in the house. Arrested with her were Mary Williams, 38, also of the Newton Avenue address; Charles Weatherby, 28, of 540 Division Street and Edward Werner, 26, of 707 New Street. They were charged with being inmates. Sergeant John Deith and Policeman Earl Wright said they found whiskey on a table after they went to the house in response to the complaint. Wright testified he had to climb the rainspout to get in. Mrs. Holmes denied the charge but was found guilty. The other woman and the two men were fined $10 each.	707 New Street Edward Werner 1936
	707 New Street The William Fraction Sr. Family 1968-2006
	708 New Street
	709 New Street Raymond M. Haines Family 1920s-1930s
	709 New Street Seaman First Class Raymond Ernest Haines
	710 New Street
	711 New Street
	712 New Street
	713 New Street
	714 New Street
	715 New Street December 12, 1957 Camden Courier-Post December 13, 1957
	716 New Street Edward F. Lummis 1887-1900s
	717 New Street
	718 New Street 1887-1890 Reuben Wingate & Family Reuben & Hannah Wingate Arthur A. Wingate
	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 H. Jarret Zander & Family H. Jarrett & Maude Zander John T. Zander
	724 New Street
	725 New Street
	726 New Street
	727 New Street
	728 New Street
	729 New Street Camden Courier-Post March 21, 1932 Mary Hoffman 1932
	730 New Street
	731 New Street James M. Fitzgerald 1888-1889
	732 New Street 1915 Thomas Egan Philadelphia Inquirer November 21, 1915
	732 New Street
	733 New Street
	734 New Street
	735 New Street
	736 New Street 1941 Walter W. Johnson Camden Courier-Post July 22, 1941 Howard Truax
	738 New Street
	740 New Street 1920s-1970s Matilda Johnson Elizabeth Johnson Photograph Taken December 22, 2005
	742 New Street
	744 New Street
	745 New Street
	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.
     She was arrested at 3:00 AM after a call was sent to police headquarters by neighbors, that a woman had screamed "murder" in the house. Arrested with her were Mary Williams, 38, also of the Newton Avenue address; Charles Weatherby, 28, of 540 Division Street and Edward Werner, 26, of 707 New Street. They were charged with being inmates.
     Sergeant John Deith and Policeman Earl Wright said they found whiskey on a table after they went to the house in response to the complaint. Wright testified he had to climb the rainspout to get in.
     Mrs. Holmes denied the charge but was found guilty. The other woman and the two men were fined $10 each.