CAMDEN HEADLINES - TO ABANDON STATION - Haddon Avenue Station Abandonded and Razed

Camden residents were handed a big and ugly surprise in the spring of 1907 when the Pennsylvania Railroad, which had been given permission to elevate the railroad tracks running from the Market Street Ferry east to Haddon Avenue, intended to close Haddon Station, which was located east of South 6th Street between Bridge Avenue and Mickle Street... today literally in the middle of Mickle Boulevard. As far as the city was concerned, the Railroad had conned them. Residents and local politicians spoke out, but there was nothing to be done, and by the end of July, Haddon Station, which had been a Camden landmark since the mid-1870s and was heavily used, was no more.

Phil Cohen
July 23, 2017

Haddon Avenue Station
Photo taken between February 1898 and July 1907
The Third Regiment Armory, later known as Convention Hall, is at left

Haddon Avenue Station
Camden Courier-Post Article, Unknown date betweem 1953 and 1976
The Third Regiment Armory, later known as Convention Hall, is at left
Photo taken between February 1898 and July 1907

Philadelphia Inquirer - June 2, 1907

Edward Francis

	Philadelphia inquirer June 14, 1907 James. E. Hewitt Isaac V. Bradley Elmer Ellsworth Long Charles Shimer Boyer Pennsylvania Railroad West Jersey & Seashore Railroad

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Trenton Evening Times - June 25, 1907

William S. Ginglen

Bridgeton Evening News
June 27, 1907

E.G.C. Bleakly