Category: Historical Accounts
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The Founding of Cooper Hospital – Tracking History
Dr. Richard M. Cooper always dreamed of a hospital for Camden, but he never lived to see his dream come true.
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President Coolidge Opens the Bridge – Tracking History
In July 2001, with plenty of fanfare, fireworks and fun, the Delaware River Port Authority celebrated the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.
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Dudley Grange – Tracking History
At one time the old Dudley mansion once stood on its grounds like a proud old lady. It was demolished in 1980, the victim of vandals and finally an arsonist.
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Harry Gleason (via SABR)
On the surface, Harry Gleason’s career wasn’t noteworthy. But there’s so much more to Gleason’s story.
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Old Cooper Street
Reprinted from the series of stories of Camden’s earlier days, under the title Sixty Years in Camden County – Gosh! by Will Paul, appearing in The Community news, of Merchantville, NJ.
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The Forgotten Whistle-Blower Who Saved Jews From Hitler (Excerpt)
How did a 30-year-old attorney in the U.S. Treasury Department, a Protestant with no particular interest in Jewish affairs, come to play a central role in the rescue of more than 200,000 Jews from the Holocaust?
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Victor Mixed Chorus at Trinity Studios
A newly unearthed negative from the Victor vaults shows Rosario Bourdon conducting members of the Victor studio band billed as ‘Victor Mixed Chorus’ & Orchestra at Victor’s ‘Trinity Studios’ in Camden, New Jersey.
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The West Jersey Ferry (Excerpted)
This ferry was established about 1800 by Abraham Browning, Sr., an intelligent and enterprising farmer of the territory now braced in Stockton Township.
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Abraham Lincoln and Boston Corbett (Digital Book)
A digitally scanned book called “Abraham Lincoln and Boston Corbett”
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Camden Kiwanis Club Alert
The Camden Kiwanis Club is a Civic organization with activities centering about certain objectives, some of which are the underprivileged children, the promotion of an intelligent citizenship, the practice of the Golden Rule in business, the fostering of better relations between the employer and the employee, and between the farmer and the city resident.
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MEETING THE GOOD ROADS DEMAND CREATED BY AUTOMOBILES
Automobiles brought about the modern highways of today and no section of the country has responded to the demand for good roads more completely than has South Jersey.
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A Brief History of the City of Camden
It was in 1631 that the Dutch Commander, De Vries, while sailing up the “De La Warr” River, discovered a verdant island at the spot where Camden now stands. This he named Jacques Eylandt, and the river afterward was named after Lord De La Warr, its discoverer, the Delaware.