Historic Camden, NJ

GENE R. MARIANO was born in Philadelphia PA on May 5, 1905. He served as a municipal judge in Camden from 1937 to 1942, and as the Camden County Prosecutor in the late 1940s. He was a delegate to Democratic National Convention from New Jersey in 1940 and was an alternate in 1944.

MARKET STREET must have been named because it had a market, or was meant to anyway. The…

SECOND STREET runs north and south, between Front and Third Streets, parallel to the Delaware River as far south as Mechanic Street. It originally ran virtually uninterrupted.

FIFTH STREET was one of Camden’s original streets, running south to north, with a few major interruptions,…