SENATE STREET originally ran from South 2nd Street eastward to West Street, between Berkley and Clinton Streets. The street first appears in City Directories in 1867, and was not listed in the 1863-1864 edition, more or less fixing the date of Senate Street being laid out to the years in between. The 200 Block of Senate Street was razed along with several other blocks west of South 3rd and south of Mickle Street around 1970 to make room for the Royal Court Townhomes and the Mickle Tower apartment building. A few homes were still occupied in the 400 Block of Senate Street as late as the fall of 1970, but it appears these residents were all gone by 1977. A 1980 Reverse Directory shows no listings in the 300 or 400 blocks of Senate Street. The 300 block of Senate still exists, although there are no addresses on it, only the rears of homes on Berkley and Clinton Streets. |
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HOSPITAL CASES WEST JERSEY James Foster, 2, 757
Division St., laceration of head. COOPER Dorothy Gorman, 2, 507
Division
St., contusion and sprain of shoulder. |
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Intersection of South 3rd Street and Senate Street | |
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1924 Klean Way Laundry |
Intersection of Senate Street & South 4th Street | |
SHOT MANGLED DOG The report of a shotgun at Fourth and Senate Streets late on Saturday attracted crowds to that corner. A mongrel dog of the neighborhood, which had a hind leg cut off by an automobile, was shot. The automatic of motorcycle patrolman George Frost mercifully put the half-staved canine out of its misery. |
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COURT FREES GIRL WHO DRANK POISON Pleading guilty to attempting to end her life by drinking poison, Sarah Turner, 17, of 338 Lansdowne Avenue, was given suspended sentence by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday. The girl was arrested after she was treated at Cooper Hospital. She told Detective Ben Simon she drank the poison because she was jealous of her sister. William Harrity, 24, of 409 Senate Street, Sarah's sweetheart, was held as a material witness but was released today when he said he knew nothing of the quarrel between the sisters. |
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1878-1885 Willie Caskey was killed in a train wreck on June 6, 1884 while on a church outing with the Second Presbyterian Church. His brother John was injured. By 1887 the family had moved to Arthur Avenue in Cramer Hill. |
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Smith
and Trout arrested Martha Norman,
38, of 833 Jackson
Street; Margaret Baner, 35, same address; Jessie Fife, 23, of 1120 Carpenter
Street, and Jolie Brandy, 33, of 618 North Forty-sixth street,
Philadelphia, in a raid at 432 Senate
Street. |
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Ray Shedrick, 22, of 433
Senate Street, pleaded guilty to operating a 50-gallon still in his
home. He said he sold his whisky where he could but refused to name his
buyers. He also was arrested by Trout
and Smith. |
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Camden Morning Post - December 13, 1930 | |
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Henry Smith - William Rogers- Senate Street |
Camden Courier-Post - June 28, 1933 |
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Still Operators Jailed By Pancoast in Effort to Smash Huge Chain Camden
police believed they had broken the first link in a chain sys tem of
stills yesterday when Police Judge Pancoast
sentenced 13 persons, several of them from Philadelphia, to 90 days each
in the county jail None was able to pay a $200 fine. The
prisoners were arrested in three raids by District Detectives John
Trout, Walter Smith and Vernon
Jones early yesterday. All the defendants are colored. "I
believe you're all implicated in this chain system," said Judge Pancoast
in sentencing the first group. "I believe it is directed in
Philadelphia and that the police have broken the first link.' I think your
stills are scattered all through Camden." Smith
and Trout arrested Martha Norman,
38, of 833 Jackson
Street; Margaret Baner, 35, same address; Jessie Fife, 23, of 1120 Carpenter
Street, and Jolie Brandy, 33, of 618 North Forty-sixth street,
Philadelphia, in a raid at 432 Senate
Street. The
detectives testified they had been watching the place for some time. Trout,
alone, saw Brandy drive up and take three bags of sugar inside. Trout
left to get Smith
and when they returned all four defendants were sitting in Brandy's
automobile: The Norman woman, they said had a. one-gallon can of moonshine
on her lap.
, Inside
the detectives stated, they found a 50-gallon still in operation and four
barrels of mash. Brandy denied he was the operator and said the owner was
a man, known only as "John." Ray Shedrick, 22,
of 433 Senate Street, pleaded guilty to operating a 50-gallon still in his
home. He said he sold his whisky where he could but refused to name his
buyers. He also was arrested by Trout and Smith. James
Green, 32, of 749 Division
Street, admitted operating a 25-gallon still at that address but, said
it was for his own use only and that he sold none of it. Arrested
with him were Marion Smith, 26, of 615 North Forty-fifth Street; Charles
Marton, 34, of 2131 North Twenty-first Street; Felix Carroll, 31, of 2006
North Gratz Street; Gladys Little, 28, of 612 North Forty-sixth Street,
and Beatrice Hill, 32, of 5733 Commerce Street, all Philadelphia. The alleged operators all were charged with violating the city speakeasy ordinance, which prohibits gathering of "disorderly persons." The others were charged with being material witnesses or frequenters. |
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New York Times - June 6, 1884 | |
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