SILVER STREET is a two block street that runs north to south from Line Street to Division Street, west of South 8th Street. In the rear of the homes in the 700 block, that is from Line to Pine Street, is a short street with six homes named Gold Street, that is only accessible through an unnamed alley north of 708 Silver Street. By 2009 all of the homes on both Silver Street and Gold Street had been razed. Silver Street still exists in the sense that on can drive through it. Outside of the curb cutouts, all traces of Gold Street are now gone. Silver Street does not appear in the 1885 Sanborn Maps of Camden. Houses in both the 700 and 800 blocks appear in the 1888-1889 Camden City Directory. There were still homes on both blocks as late as 1980. There are no homes listed on Gold Street in the 1930 Census, however. |
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700 Block of Silver Street | |
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1905 Philadelphia Inquirer Edward S. Hyde |
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1930 Vacant |
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1934 Camden Courier-Post William McCloud |
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1947 Silas Mack |
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1947 Mrs. Dorothy Cannon |
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1930 Bertha Hooper |
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1895 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1906 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1909 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1947 Henry Hellmus |
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1967 John A. Raby |
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1980 C. Greene |
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1928-1930 Camden Courier-Post Raymond Elsey
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1930-1947 Robert H. Barnes |
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1913 Ida Stewart Camden
Daily Courier William Milton
- David Ellis |
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1916 Philadelphia Inquirer Edward
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1930-1947 |
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1947-1956 Elsie Hughes |
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1906-1908 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1906-1908 Philadelphia Inquirer O. Glen Stackhouse |
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1908 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1928 Camden Courier-Post Lawrence Jordan |
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1930 John Fulman |
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1971 Sadie Demby Camden Courier-Post |
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1915 Camden Post-Telegram Click on Image to Read O. Glen Stackhouse - Frank
Miller |
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1915 Philadelphia Inquirer O. Glen Stackhouse - Frank
Miller |
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1921-1980 |
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1888 |
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1930 1947 Mrs. Rida Thomas |
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1947 Mrs. Ruby Sanchious |
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1900-1904 James Clark died on 28 Aug 1910 at 923 Walnut Street, Camden, New Jersey. He was buried in Aug 1910 at 329 White Horse Pike, Lawnside, Camden, New Jersey. |
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1905-1917 |
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1920-1928 |
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1920 From Gold Street 1928 |
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1947 Carlton R. Scott |
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1956 Sam Smith Camden Courier-Post |
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1947 Mary Butler |
Intersection of Silver Street & Pine Street | |
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800 Block of Silver Street - 1891 Sanborn Map | |
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Looking East on Pine Street to the Intersection of Pine & Silver Streets - 2012. | |
800 Block of Silver Street | |
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1893 Joseph Trout |
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1894 Philadelphia Inquirer Naomi Drinkhouse |
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1915-1926 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1947 Louis W. Brown |
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1888 |
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1909-1912 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1912 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1947 Charles W. Scott |
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1888 |
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1940-1947 |
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1917 Isaac Chambers Camden Post-Telegram |
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1920-1927 |
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1947 No Listing |
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1888 |
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1947-1959 |
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1903-1904 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1947 No Listing |
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1903-1906 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1908-1914 |
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1940-1947 |
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1956-1980 John G. Bacchuse |
Intersection of Silver Street & Division Street | |
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Looking West on Division Street to the Intersection of Division & Silver Streets - 2012. | |
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Looking North on Silver Street from Division Street - 2012. | |