BROWNING STREET was originally known as Evergreen Avenue, and runs east from Mount Ephraim Avenue opposite Evergreen Cemetery, and was probably laid out as early as the 1890s. Evergreen Avenue appears in the 1906 Camden City Directory, and can be found on the map below, published in 1914. 

On March 4, 1920, Congressman William J. Browning passed away while performing his duties at the Capitol Building in Washington DC. Shortly after his death, Evergreen Avenue, which at that time had no buildings erected on it, was renamed Browning Street in his memory. When the 1924 City Directory was compiled, there still had been no homes built on Browning Street. Construction soon came, and by 1947 many homes stood in the 1300 and 1300 blocks.  

Do you have an Browning Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here.

 Phil Cohen
Friday, September 08, 2006