Camden Streets - Adams Avenue

ADAMS AVENUE, which is in the Cramer Hill section of Camden NJ, was named after President John Quincy Adams. That he was named for John Quincy instead of John Adams is a pretty easy deduction, given that many of the other streets in the immediate vicinity wee named after Presidents of the same era, Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, Harrison, and Tyler, to be precise.

Adams Avenue starts at the foot of North 28th Street, near where the old Noecker & Rickenbach Shipyard once stood, and runs northeast across 29th Street before ending at the site of the former Tucker shipyard.

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Phil Cohen

2800 Block of Adams Avenue
On February 16th, 1941at 6:30 A.M., a passing milkman turned in the alarm for an explosion and fire in an occupied dwelling at 28th Street and Adams Avenue, Cramer Hill. A father and son were killed in this fire resulting from a faulty oil burner, while a second son was critically burned but survived.	2802 or 2804 Adams Avenue
	2802 Adams Avenue 1924 No Listing 1929 George W. Distler
	2804 Adams Avenue 1924 Harry P. Hanscomb 1929 Mrs. Antonia Hanscomb
	2808 Adams Avenue 1924 Harry T. Carver 1929 Joe N. Jackson 1947 James R. Murphy
	2810 Adams Avenue 1924 Roy M. Kane 1929 Charles King 1947 John Hirst
	2812 Adams Avenue 1924 Vacant 1929 Walter J. Lucha 1947 John J. Kane
	2820 Adams Avenue 1924 William Kelly
Urges New Schools To the Editor: Sir-As a citizen of Camden, I plead with you to encourage the building of new schools in Camden. As you probably know, many of these schools are in deplorable condition, especially in the Third and Fourth wards and are fire traps, if ever there were any. If there is not something done to replace these firetraps, we are going to have a repetition of what took place in Ontario the other day where so many innocent children were burned to death. Not more than 10 percent of the schools in Camden are fit to hold children; and, your paper, being the mouthpiece of Camden county should absolutely make steps forward for the encouragement of building new schools. Trusting that you will do what you can for this cause, I am SAMUEL CHURCH	2820 Adams Avenue 1929-1930s Samuel R. Church Camden Courier-Post February 5, 1938
	2820 Adams Avenue 1947 Mrs. Lillian S. Meester
	2820 Adams Avenue rear 1924 John Beideman 1929 Coy Faust 1947 Edward C. Hinnershitz
	2825 Adams Avenue 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing 1947 Thomas E. Tabb
	2830 Adams Avenue 1924 Hugh Unger 1929 Charles A. Laird 1947 Samuel McAlonan
	2834 Adams Avenue 1924 W.H. Wentworth 1929 Vacant 1947 Robert Deets
	2838 Adams Avenue 1924-1929 Mrs. Lydia Morrison
	2840 Adams Avenue 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing 1947 Dominick McBride
	2842 Adams Avenue 1924 No Listing 1929 Vacant 1947 Frank E. Cranston

2900 Block of Adams Avenue Click on Images to Enlarge
	2900 Adams Avenue 1979-2006 Waterview Inn
	2901 Adams Avenue 1924 Joseph B. Rink grocery 1929 Gottlieb Myers
	2901 Adams Avenue 1943-1960s William C. O'Brien I have lived in Cramer Hill since 1943. We first lived on Harrison Avenue. Then we had to move, because someone bought our rented house. We move to 2901 Adams Avenue in 1947. Here is a picture of our house. It was not a very nice house. It was a summer house when the Delaware River was clean enough to go swimming in, but it was the only one available at the time. My Pop fixed it up, had it shingled in white. My Father was William C. O'Brien, mother Thelma, my name is Patsy, brother Bill, and brother Jim. I lived there till I got married in 1959. My family still lives in South Jersey. My father passed away in 1997. My Mom and brothers are still living. I have a lot of happy memories living on Adams Avenue. The streets weren't paved. A great place for kids to play. We went to Sharp School. Patsy O'Brien Maggiulli
	2901 Adams Avenue 1943-1960s William C. O'Brien This is My Mom, Thelma O'Brien, in the back yard. The Dickerson's house and our were attached. We bought their side, and Pop tore through to made it bigger. As you can see it was a real mess. Pop did all the work himself. Us Kkds helped out as much as we could. As a result us kids knew how to handle tools. We've became quite handy, because Pop taught us.. Patsy O'Brien Maggiulli
	2903 Adams Avenue 1924 John Hirst 1929 Thomas A. Elwell 1947 Charles Dickinson
	2905 Adams Avenue 1924 No Listing 1929 Vacant 1947 No Listing
	2907 Adams Avenue 1924 Edward Stiles 1929 Lawrence B. Whipple 1947 No Listing
	2910 Adams Avenue 1929 August Oswald Sr. 1947 Herman Niessner 2006 J. H. Foley
	2912 Adams Avenue 1924 Joseph Bozart 1929 John Edwards 1947 Norman H. Swift
	2914 Adams Avenue 1924 Harry Luebberman 1929 Vacant 1947 Walter E. Ott
	2918 Adams Avenue 1924-1929 John Frett 1947 Samuel Flack junk
	2921 Adams Avenue 1924 Edward Gunby 1929 Gordon L. Boose
	2922 Adams Avenue 1924 No Listing 1929 Edmund M. Thomas plumber 1947 No Listing
	2947 Adams Avenue 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing 1947 Edward R. Walls
	2949 Adams Avenue 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing 1947 No Listing 2006 Ginice Beebe