CHERRY STREET is one of Camden's 'tree' streets, running east-west between Spruce and Walnut Streets. The western end of Cherry Street, below South 3rd Street, was the original southern border of the Fettersville tract, named for Richard Fetters, a prominent citizen of 19th century Camden. Fetters played a vital role in establishing the City of Camden. Richard Fetters in 1833 purchased from Charity and Grace Kaighn the land lying between Line and Cherry Streets, extending from Third Street to the Delaware River. Fetters, a Quaker, was a political and civic leader light years ahead of his time in his commitment to address the needs of his fellow citizens. The town of Fettersville grew rapidly, and in 1835 an additional tract was purchased from the Kaighn family extending south to Mount Vernon Street. Lots originally laid out by Fetters, measured 30x200 feet and in 1835 were assessed at $50 each. These low rates attracted many buyers of modest mean, a large portion of them South Jersey and Philadelphia blacks. He platted these lands into lots and sold them for $125 for a lot 40 x 100 feet. Fetter's plan placed the fronts on the streets running east and west in consideration of his design for a ferry to be located at the foot of Spruce Street. This ferry never was built, as the Kaighns' Point Ferry more than adequately serviced the area's needs. |
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When I was a kid I remember that I was told that in I would guess the first twenty years or so of the 20th century, that Cherry Street was known for all the Italian umbrella makers and repairers, who lived in that neighborhood, and that some people called the west end of Cherry Street "Gas House" or "Coke House" because of the coke plant and PSE&G gas plant. A lot of the Italians that lived in that neighborhood were in the needle and garment trades years later. John Ciafrani |
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249 Cherry Street
1905 Rose Mitchell Philadelphia
Inquirer Arthur Stanley - Maud
Trusty - Click on Image for Complete Article |
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257 Cherry Street
1909-1924 Camden
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257 Cherry Street
1909-1924 Philadelphia
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257 Cherry Street
1909-1924 Philadelphia
inquirer |
257 Cherry Street
1929 Vacant |
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261 Cherry Street
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263 Cherry Street
1914-1929
Donato Fanelle 1914-1929
Donato Fanelle |
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265 Cherry Street
1924
Peter Leisen |
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267 Cherry Street
1924 Mary E. Johnson |
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286 Cherry Street 1930s-1970s Steinberg Brothers Bag Company |
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286 Cherry Street April 6, 2010 Camden Firefighters arrived to find heavy smoke showing from the building with reports of people trapped. One victim was removed and transported to Cooper Hospital. One was D.O.A. The emergency evacuation tones were sounded as one firefighter fell through a floor. Minor injuries. Companies set up for a defensive operation. The fire consumed the entire vacant building. |
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286 Cherry Street
Camden
Courier-Post Camden Fire kills man, injures 2 other
people A three-alarm fire in an abandoned building on Tuesday left one person dead and two others injured, authorities said. Identities were not available for victims of the blaze, which was reported around 10:30 a.m. in the 2200 block of Cherry Street in South Camden. A man who was pulled from the fire was declared dead at the scene, said Camden City Chief Fire Marshal Ralph Roberts. A woman who was helped from the burning building suffered smoke inhalation, he said. A fire captain was taken to Cooper University Hospital with minor injuries. Rescue workers arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the building, Roberts said. He said it was not known if the victims were living in the abandoned building, which was last used as an auto-detailing shop. The fire's cause remains under investigation. |
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286 Cherry Street
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286 Cherry Street
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286 Cherry Street
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286 Cherry Street
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292 Cherry Street
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292 Cherry Street
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292 Cherry Street
Photograph Taken October 11, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
Intersection of South 3rd Street and Cherry Street | |
922 3rd Street 1890-1930s Johnny Carroll's |
300 Block of Cherry Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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302
Cherry Street
1870s-1920s Harry F. Wolfe |
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308
Cherry Street
1932 Camden Courier-Post Nathan Wine
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Cherry Street
1938 Camden Courier-Post
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312 Cherry
Street
1956 Rosie Ross Camden Courier-Post Sycamore
Street
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Harry Weeks, of 320 Cherry Street, had one of his feet crushed yesterday by a heavy stone falling on it while he was at work at Front Street and Kaighn Avenue. He was taken to Cooper Hospital. |
320
Cherry Street
1900 Harry Weeks Philadelphia
Inquirer |
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320
Cherry Street
1910-1960s Click on Image for PDF File |
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320
Cherry Street
1910-1960s In 1909 Antonio Fugaro purchased 320 Cherry Street from C. Moles. Click on Image to Enlarge |
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320
Cherry Street
1910-1960s Water Bill, May 1909 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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320
Cherry Street
1910-1960s Permit to install, May 9, 1913 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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320
Cherry Street
1910-1960s Property
Tax Receipt Click on Image to Enlarge
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321 Cherry Street
1914-1915 Philadelphia
Inquirer |
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322
Cherry Street
1908 Peter Celia Philadelphia
Inquirer |
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Cherry Street
1949 Camden Courier-Post |
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Cherry Street
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Cherry Street
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Cherry Street
1871-1883 |
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Cherry Street
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333
Spruce Street
1932-1933 Camden Courier-Post Clifford
Carr |
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Cherry Street
1919 |
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EARLY MORNING VISIT RESULTS IN $10 FINE Arrested early this morning by Policeman John Schott and charged with breaking and entering a Mechanic Street house, Rocco Martino, 35 years old, 335 Cherry Street, was fined $10 in police court this morning. The complaint was changed, to disorderly conduct after Martino said be couldn’t explain his actions at the home of Mrs. Helen Featherer, 323 Mechanic Streett. |
335 Cherry Street
1925 Rocco Martino Camden Courier-Post |
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336 Cherry Street
1963 Camden Courier-Post
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337
Cherry Street
1910-1912 |
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Cherry Street
1906 |
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Cherry Street
1878 |
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Spruce Street
1931-1940
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Cherry Street
1880-1927 After 1885 |
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346
Cherry Street 1920s - 1969 Frank "Chick" Abbott |
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347
Cherry Street
1871-1872 |
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348
Cherry Street
1887-1894
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348 Cherry Street
1915 Owen Maley Philadelphia Inquirer Click on Image to Enlarge O. Glen Stackhouse |
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348
Spruce Street
1930-1933 Clifford
Carr
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Cherry Street
1895 John H. Fetters Camden Post-Telegram |
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354 Cherry Street
1914-1929 Philadelphia Inquirer Click on Image for PDF File Fiore
Troncone |
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354 Cherry Street
1914-1929 Philadelphia Inquirer |
MYSTERY SHOTS
PIERCE DOOR OF CAMDEN HOME
Mystery shots that splintered the door of a South Camden home yesterday started the police on a search for a group of youths seen loitering in the neighborhood. Mrs. James Falconiero, of 354 Cherry Street, reported to Detective Benjamin Simon that she was awakened at 5 a. m., by a series of shots. She said she looked out a window and saw several young men entering an automobile a short distance from her home. An inspection of the front of the house revealed several holes in the door caused by bullets. One missile, of 38-calibre was found buried in the plaster in the hallway. |
354 Cherry Street
1933 Mrs. James Falconiero Camden Courier-Post |
400 Block of Cherry Street | |
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1911 Luigi Vernello |
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406
Cherry Street 1878 Alexander Peacock |
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406
Cherry Street 1879 William Jeffreys |
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Cherry Street 1889-1881 William H.H. Clark |
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406
Cherry Street Anthony & Rose "Nellie" Tantonio
This House was built in 1899. I
was pleased to find this photo of my Uncle Tony & Aunt Nellie’s
Home. About Anthony
Venella |
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406
Cherry Street 1969 Samuel R. Smith Samuel R. & ELizabeth Tortella Smith Camedn
Courier-Post |
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409
Cherry Street
1956 Camden Courier-Post Click on Image for PDF File |
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410
Cherry Street
1916 Joseph Ferrari Philadelphia
Inquirer Click on Image for PDF File |
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Cherry Street 1940s - 1950s La Familia Sanabria |
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414
Cherry Street 1940s Joseph DiMona Company Warehouse |
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417 Cherry Street
1917 Charles R. Norris Philadelphia
Inquirer The
Majestic Theatre
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Cherry Street
1932 John Vesper Camden
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Henry Shultz, the carriage builder, was held in bail by Recorder Braker last night for assault and battery on Pauline Gottenburg, of 422 Cherry Street. |
422
Cherry Street
1890 Pauline Gottenburg Philadelphia
Inquirer Henry Schultz - Benjamin Braker |
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Cherry Street 1910 - 1930s Leonardo Mardino Family |
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Cherry Street
1930 Camillo Tosto Camden Courier-Post Frank Valeriani |
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Cherry Street
1936 |
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1930 |
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1913 |
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1908-1909 Phildelphia
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Cherry Street
1914 Joseph P. Boone |
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513-515-517 Cherry Street
1885-1896 1897 |
505-517
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506 Cherry Street 1940s N. Fuhrman Company Warehouse |
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507-517
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Cherry Street (507-517 Cherry Street) 1949 Camden Courier-Post
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P. S. HONORS EMPLOYEE Charles J. Lack, 512 Cherry Street, Camden, completed 25 years' service' with Public Service February 3 and received a gold badge emblematic of' the occasion. He is employee at the Burlington Generating Station of Public Service Electric & Gas Company: Lack, started with Public Service at Camden and was transferred to Burlington in 1927. |
512 Cherry Street Charles Lack Camden
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Intersection
of Daubman Alley & Cherry Street Daubman Alley ran parallel to Broadway from Walnut to Cherry Street |
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Intersection of Coates
Alley & Cherry
Street Coates Alley ran parallel to Broadway from Cherry Street to Division Street Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Coates
Alley & Cherry Street July 10, 2004 |
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Northwest
Corner
1885-1896 W.H.
Wilkins & Company 1897 |
Northwest
Corner
1899-1914 William
S. Avis 1915-1921 |
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Corner
1924 U.S.
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Looking
North on Coates Alley from Cherry Street July 10, 2004 |
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602 Cherry Street
1904 Lee Sears Philadelphia
Inquirer Click on Image for PDF File Edward
S. Hyde |
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602 Cherry Street
1944
Margaret Henry Camden
Courier-Post Bartholomew
Sheehan
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602 Cherry Street
1944
Margaret Henry Camden
Courier-Post Bartholomew
Sheehan
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603 Cherry Street 1890 2012 Gone |
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604 Cherry Street 1906 Philadelphia
Inquirer 2012 Gone |
606 Cherry Street 2012 Gone |
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607 Cherry Street
1947 2012 Gone |
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608 Cherry Street
1878-1880 2012
Gone |
610 Cherry Street 2012 Gone |
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611 Cherry Street
1935 2012 Gone |
612 Cherry Street 2012 Gone |
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614 Cherry Street 2012 Gone |
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616 Cherry Street 2012 Gone |
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619-621 Cherry Street 1906 1920s-1930s Garages in foreground built after 1906 2012 Gone |
620 Cherry Street 2012 Gone |
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622 Cherry Street 2012 Gone |
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624 Cherry Street
1896-1898 1910
Albert Boggs |
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624 & 626
Cherry Street
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626 Cherry Street
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Oley R. Holloway 2011
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628 Cherry Street
1879 2012 Gone |
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629 Cherry Street
1900 2012 Gone |
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630 Cherry Street
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MARRIAGE
LICENSES CAMDEN Anderson Williams, 48, and Anna English, 56, both of 630 Cherry street. |
630 Cherry Street
1938 Anderson Williams Camden
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631 Cherry Street
Photograph Taken October 3, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge 2012 Gone |
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631, 633 & 635
Cherry Street
Photograph Taken October 3, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge 2012 Gone |
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633 Cherry Street
1915 Martha Jones Camden Daily Courier Henry Hackney |
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633 Cherry Street
Photograph Taken October 3, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge 2012 Gone |
William Stroud, aged 16, living at 634 Cherry Street, was badly injured yesterday while at work in Dialogue's ship yard. He was removed to Cooper Hospital. |
634 Cherry Street
1890 William Stroud Philadelphia
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635 Cherry Street
Photograph Taken October 3, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge 2012 Gone |
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637 Cherry Street 2012 Gone |
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638 Cherry Street
1920s-1930s 2012 Gone |
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640 Cherry Street 2012 Gone |
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650 Cherry Street
1890 Philadelphia
Inquirer |
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722 Cherry Street 1890s-1900s Thomas & Julia Higgins Gertrude L. Higgins Helen Higgins
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WIFE FOUND BEATEN ON STREET Charges She Was Robbed -Estranged Husband Identifies Her Blackjacked and contending she was robbed, a pretty 20-year-old South Camden married woman is in Cooper Hospital with a fractured skull. Her condition is reported as serious. The woman was identified yester day as Mrs. Margaret Templeton by her husband, William Templeton, of 722 Cherry Street. He said he has been estranged from her for some time. Police are searching for the driver of a taxi and a man known to them as "Harry," whom the injured woman told police took her from a cafe in Gloucester. Police learned Mrs. Templeton and a man were deposited at Second and Penn Streets from a taxicab at 1:40 a. m. The woman was found on the same corner at 6:30 a. m. She first told police her name was Martha Shay and later changed it to Margaret Shane. She gave an address at 401 Kaighn Avenue, but was not known there. Then she said she lived at the Cherry Street address of her husband. He denied this, although he identified her. Police say the woman was struck over the head with a blackjack or blunt instrument. She will be questioned further when her condition improves. It was learned last night that Mrs. Templeton has been living a 1148 Kaighn Avenue. |
722 Cherry Street
1933 William Templeton Camden
Courier-Post |
722 Cherry Street
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722 Cherry Street
1964 Willie Wade Walker Camden Courier-Post |
723 Cherry Street
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725 Cherry Street
1955 Camden Courier-Post
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726 Cherry Street
2012 Vacant |
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728 Cherry Street
2012 Vacant |
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729 Cherry Street
1891 Lewis Munson Philadelphia
Inquirer |
730-732 Cherry Street
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731 Cherry Street
1923-1975 Camden Courier-Post Abandoned, condemend, |
731 Cherry Street
Private First Class |
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733 Cherry Street
1906 |
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1906 |
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735 Cherry Street
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736 Cherry Street
1939-1949 1939-1954 Camden Courier-Post John E. Sturges
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736 Cherry Street
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740 Cherry Street
1951 Camden Courier-Post |
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741
Cherry Street
1902 Samuel String & Family Philadelphia Inquirer |
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741 Cherry Street
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742 Cherry Street
1894 Philadelphia inquirer |
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744 Cherry Street
Camden Courier-Post Anna Fitch |
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751 Cherry Street
1938 Howard Cannon Camden
Courier-Post
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60-DA
Y
SENTENCE
GIVEN IN
THEFT OF WATCH
Sixty
days in the county jail was the sentence meted out to Wilmer Brown, 52,
of 3002 Thompson Street, when he was charged in police court yesterday
with stealing a watch. Arrested
on complaint of Martin
Nelson, 561
Spruce
Street,
Brown denied the charges and said he knew nothing of the timepiece.
Nelson testified that he went to a house on Cherry
Street
near Sixth with Brown and fell asleep. His watch was taken while he
slept, he said. He admitted he had been drinking. William Pollard, of 751 Cherry Street, said he was in the back yard of the house on Cherry Street when Nelson and Brown appeared. An hour after they entered the place, he said, Brown asked him for a pair of pliers to cut it chain. In sentencing Brown, Police Judge Pancoast said he believed the man wanted the pliers to cut Nelson’s watch chain. |
751 Cherry Street
1933 William Pollard Camden Courier-Post |
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757-759 Cherry Street
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760,
762, 764, 755 & 768 Cherry Street July 2012 |
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762 Cherry Street
1906 |
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764 Cherry Street
2012 Vacant Damaged by on July 3, 2016 photo by Josh Berry |
766 Cherry Street
2016 |
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768 Cherry Street
2012 |
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770 Cherry Street 2012 Gone |
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772 Cherry Street
1900s-1952 |
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772 Cherry Street
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774 Cherry Street
2012 |
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897 Cherry Street
1957 Camden Courier-Post Edward
F. Troutman |
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812 Cherry Street
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814 Cherry Street
1914 Edgar Blaine Trites |
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815 Cherry Street
1932 Thomas Howard Camden Courier-Post Garfield
S. Pancoast
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817 Cherry Street
Camden Daily Telegram Real Estate Investment
Company Line Street -
Arch Street |
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822 Cherry Street
1927 |
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909
Cherry Street
1950 John Spence Camden Courier-Post Kaighn
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MAN GETS 30 DAYS IN ROW OVER 9 CENTS An argument over a 9-cent gambling debt yesterday sent Charles Minor, colored, 32, of 911 Cherry Street, to county jail for 30 days in default of a $25 tine for assault and battery on William Jackson, 913 Cherry Street. Sentence was imposed by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast after Jackson testified that Minor struck him on the chin with some blunt instrument and knocked him down. Jackson said he and Minor had played cards Wednesday and Minor had accused him of cheating him out of 9 cents. 'The argument continued, Jackson added, when Minor struck him. Minor denied the charge. |
911 Cherry Street
1933 Charles Minor Camden
Courier-Post |
913 Cherry Street
1933 William Jackson Camden
Courier-Post
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George Strain, aged 28 years, of 938 Cherry Street, who was killed by a train Friday, was buried yesterday. |
938 Cherry Street
1905 George Strain Philadelphia
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950 Cherry Street
1902-1903 Camden
Post-Telegram
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