Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Sycamore
Street


SYCAMORE STREET is another of Camden's "tree" streets, running east from Front Street to Haddon Avenue. At different times Sycamore Street intersections at 7th, 8th, and Louis Streets were hubs of Camden's African-American, Jewish, and Polish communities, respectively. 

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

 Phil Cohen



100 Block of Sycamore Street
From 1890 to 1922 this block was known as Cox Street
  140 Sycamore Street

BABY'S BACK INJURED BY, FATHER'S AUTO

Howard Butler, 2-1/2, of 141 Sycamore street, suffered a possible broken back last night when he was struck by the car of his father, Sherman Butler, 33, in front of his home.

Butler told police he was backing the car at the curb. He felt a jar, and looking back, saw his son under the left rear wheel. He took him to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.

141 Sycamore Street

1933 Sherman Butler

Camden Courier-Post
June 29, 1933

  142 Sycamore Street
  143 Sycamore Street
  144 Sycamore Street
  145 Sycamore Street
  146 Sycamore Street
  147 Sycamore Street
  148 Sycamore Street
  149 Sycamore Street
  150 Sycamore Street
  151 Sycamore Street
  152 Sycamore Street
  153 Sycamore Street

Camden Courier-Post - February 10, 1928

Bernard Bertman - Watson Shallcross - Stanley Wirtz

100 & 200 Blocks
of Sycamore Street

Sanborn Map
North Side of Kaighn Avenue
at
South 2nd Street

Last Edited 1963

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Intersection of South 2nd Street & Sycamore Street
   
South 2nd Street from Chestnut Street to Mechanic Street - Circa 1930
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200 Block of Sycamore Street
200 Sycamore Street

1931 Vacant
1935 James Hampton

Camden Courier-Post
August 31, 1935

John Garrity
George Weber
Oscar Fowler
West Jersey Hospital

  201 Sycamore Street

1906

  202 Sycamore Street

1906

  203 Sycamore Street

1906

  204 Sycamore Street

1906

  205 Sycamore Street

1906

  206 Sycamore Street

1906

  207 Sycamore Street

1906

  208 Sycamore Street

1906

  209 Sycamore Street

1906

  210 Sycamore Street

1906

211 Sycamore Street

1906
William Bayne & Family
William Bayne Jr.

Philadelphia Inquirer
April 13, 1891

Gertrude Bradshaw

211 Sycamore Street

1941 Vacant

Camden Courier-Post
July 4, 1941

John J. Crean

  212 Sycamore Street

1906

213 Sycamore Street

1906
William P. Harvey & Family

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 1, 1895

Jacob H. Holland
Mary Elizabeth Holland

  214 Sycamore Street

1906

  215 Sycamore Street

1906

  216 Sycamore Street

1931 Frank Grego

216 Sycamore Street

1932 George Cassidy

Camden Courier-Post
June 13, 1932

Marshall Reinheimer
Erie Street
Raymond Stark
Walter Patton
Dr. Garnett Summerill

  217 Sycamore Street

1931 Carmen Verchio


217 Sycamore Street

1947
Andrew W. Johnson & Family
Andrew & Gladys Johnson
James Johnson  - Lawrence Johnson
Howard Johnson - Anna Johnson
Emma Johnson - Marie Johnson
Mary Johnson - Pauline Johnson
Catherine Johnson - Susan Johnson
Frederick Johnson - Joan Johnson

On March 30, 1947 eight members of the Andrew Johnson family died in a fire that swept their home

San Diego Union
March 31, 1947

Walter A. Mertz

218 Sycamore Street

Trenton Times - March 31, 1947 - Bernard Gallagher

  218 Sycamore Street

1906

  219 Sycamore Street

1906

  220 Sycamore Street

1906

  221 Sycamore Street

1906

222 Sycamore Street

1896
Andrew Logan

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 1, 1896

222 Sycamore Street

1932
George Cassidy

Camden Courier-Post
June 13, 1932

Marshall Reinheimer
Erie Street
Raymond Stark
Walter Patton
Dr. Garnett Summerill

  223 Sycamore Street

1906

  224 Sycamore Street

1906

225 Sycamore Street

1912-1913 John Cross

Philadelphia Inquirer
February 5, 1913

S.C. Childs
O. Glen Stackhouse
John Painter
Charles Young
John Thompson
Francis J. Bunker
George R. Pelouze

  227 Sycamore Street

1906

229 Sycamore Street

1912 Charles Wittig

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 23,1912

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  229 Sycamore Street

1906

  231 Sycamore Street

1906


Intersection of Emma Street & Sycamore Street
   
   
   

200 Block of Sycamore Street
  226 Sycamore Street

1906

  228 Sycamore Street

1906

GIRL SWALLOWS MARBLE AND GOES TO HOSPITAL

Swallowing a marble while playing with companions in front of her home at 260 Sycamore Street yesterday, Elizabeth F. Everett, 3, is in Cooper Hospital for observation. 

Neighbors summoned police, who, with her father, 
John, took her to the hospital.
 

230 Sycamore Street

1933 John Everett

Camden Courier-Post
June 21, 1933

  230 Sycamore Street

1906

  232 Sycamore Street

1906

  233 Sycamore Street

1906

  234 Sycamore Street

1906

  234 Sycamore Street

1913
George Owens Addison & Family
George & Emma V. Garwood Addison
George O. Addison Jr - Catherine Addison
Ella Addison - Matilda Addison
Mary Addison - John T. Addison

234 Sycamore Street

1933 Mrs. Clara Jones

Camden Courier-Post
September 19, 1933

Francis Street
Roxie Branch
Arthur Holl

  235 Sycamore Street

1906

236 Sycamore Street

1927 Janie Toydon

Camden Courier-Post
November 5, 1927

  237 Sycamore Street

1920-1924
Simon Sosenko & Family
Simon & Rebecca Sosenko
Anna Sosenko
Jacob J. "Jay Jerome" Sosenko
Ruth Sosenko
grocery

237 Sycamore Street

1935 Oscar Fowler

Camden Courier-Post
August 31, 1935

John Garrity
George Weber
James Hempton
West Jersey Hospital

  238 Sycamore Street

1906

  239 Sycamore Street

1906

  240 Sycamore Street

1906

  241 Sycamore Street

1906

  242 Sycamore Street

1906

  243-249 Sycamore Street

1906
William Griffee
charcoal yard

249 Sycamore Street

1880
Charles Fitzsimmons Sr.
Charles & Anna Fitzsimmons Sr.
Charles Fitzsimmons Jr.

1906 Gone


Intersection of Locust Street & Sycamore Street
   
   
   

200 Block of Sycamore Street
  255 Sycamore Street

1910

256 Sycamore Street

1906
Theodore Diem

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 13, 1906

Gropes for Light, Man Is Killed by Fall Down Stairs

Stumbling as he groped for & light in the home of a friend, a South Camden man fell down a stairway in a Sycamore street home early today and broke his neck.

Howard Ashton, 45 years old, 1242 South Second Street was pronounced dead when admitted to Cooper Hospital shortly after 1 o’clock.

City Detective Rox Saponare went to the home of Alfred Marshman, 258 Sycamore Street, after detective headquarters had received a telephone tip that a man had fallen downstairs.

Saponare said Ashton and Marshman apparently had been drinking during the evening. They had retired to a second-floor bedroom, and Ashton apparently had started for the first floor when he fell. 

258 Sycamore Street

1927-1928
Alf Marshman

Camden Courier-Post
January 20, 1928

 

258 Sycamore Street

1949 Clarence Reed

Camden Courier-Post
November 17, 1949

 

263 Sycamore Street

1930 Joseph Dowe

Camden Courier-Post
July 20, 1930

Dominic Penn - George Bianchi
Emma Street

 

264 Sycamore Street

1958 Mrs. Mabel Busbee

Camden Courier-Post
December 27, 1958

  267 Sycamore Street

1887-1889
Phineas Ash & Family
Newton G. Ash
  267 Sycamore Street

1910
Adam Hinckle & Family
Adam & Mary Hinckle
Jennie Hinckle

  268 Sycamore Street

1894-1895
Thomas McKenna

  269 Sycamore Street

1890-1891
Phineas Ash & Family
Newton G. Ash

  269 Sycamore Street

1910
Barthol Maslowski & Family
Barthol & Annie Maslowski
Andrew Maslowski - Josephine Maslowski
Michael Maslowski - Kacber Mslowski
Adolph Herman & Family
Adolph & Annie Maslowski Herman
Adolph Herman

  271 Sycamore Street
1910
William Laier & Family
William & Anna Laier
Anna Laier
272 Sycamore Street

1888
Charles Fitzsimmons Sr.
Charles & Anna Fitzsimmons Sr.
Charles Fitzsimmons Jr.

274 Sycamore Street

1893-1894 Charles L. Way

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 2, 1893

  276 Sycamore Street

1890-1897
Henry Haines & Family
Henry & Eliza Haines
Jacob Haines
Sarah Haines
Mary Haines
Anna Haines
Harry Albert Haines Sr.

  276 Sycamore Street

1890-1897
Harry Albert Haines Sr.
Harry A. & Mary Hickman Haines
William Haines
Ethel Haines
Harry Albert Haines Jr.

  277 Sycamore Street 

1910
George Owens Addison & Family
George & Emma V. Garwood Addison
Matilda Addison
John T. Addison

Left: Matilda Addison

279 Sycamore Street

1910
H.S. Tatem

Philadelphia Inquirer
August 13, 1896

Emma Street
Wilbur F. Rose
Atlantic Avenue
Cooper Hospital

279 Sycamore Street

1905-1910
Benjamin Abbott & Family
Benjamin & Ida Abbott
Martha Abbott

Philadelphia Inquirer
April 11, 1905

  281 Sycamore Street

1909
George Owens Addison & Family
George & Emma V. Garwood Addison
Matilda Addison
John T. Addison

Left: John T. Anderson

 
281 Sycamore Street

1910
William Henry & Famil
William & Hannah Henry
James Henry
William Henry
Joseph Moser

282 Sycamore Street

1930
Dominic Penn & Family

Camden Courier-Post
July 20, 1930

Joseph Dowe - George Bianchi
Emma Street

 

  283 Sycamore Street

1900s
Samuel Auerbach & Family
Samuel & Sarah Auerbach
Melvin, Herbert & Edward Auerbach

  283 Sycamore Street

1910
John Moser & Family
John & Sabina Moser
Joseph Moser


Intersection of Emma Street & Sycamore Street
   
   

200 Block of Sycamore Street
  284 Sycamore Street
1887
  285 Sycamore Street

1910
Max Winograd & Family
grocer
Max & Sarah Winograd
Philip Winograd - Samuel Winograd
Emmanule Winograd - Leon WInograd
Bertha Winograd - Rebecca Winograd

287 Sycamore Street

1887
Charles Fitzsimmons Sr.
Charles & Anna Fitzsimmons Sr.
Charles Fitzsimmons Jr.

  287 Sycamore Street
1910
Frank Peters & Family
insurance collector
Frank & Bertha Peters
  286 Sycamore Street
1887
Lewis H. Stehr Sr. & Family
Lewis & Mary Stehr
Lewis Stehr Jr.
Samuel Stehr
  288 Sycamore Street
1887

 

  290 Sycamore Street
1887

 

  292 Sycamore Street
1887

 

293 Sycamore Street

1951
Daniel J. Lassby & Family
Daniel J. & Sadie Lassby

Camden Courier-Post
February 7, 1951

Benjamin Dzick

  294 Sycamore Street
1890
William Quemore & Family
William & Emma Quemore
huckster
  294 Sycamore Street

1898-1917
Harry Albert Haines Sr.
Harry A. & Mary Hickman Haines
William Haines
Ethel Haines
Harry Albert Haines Jr.

299 Sycamore Street

1906
Charles Fitzsimmons Jr.

  295 Sycamore Street
1887

 

  296 Sycamore Street
1887

 

  297 Sycamore Street
1887

 

299 Sycamore Street

1906
Charles Fitzsimmons Jr.

   

intersection of South 3rd Street & Sycamore Street
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Looking West on Sycamore Street from South 3rd Street - March 16, 2012 
Looking North on South 3rd Street from Sycamore Street - March 16, 2012 
Looking East on Sycamore Street from South 3rd Street - March 16, 2012 
Looking South on South 3rd Street from Sycamore Street - March 16, 2012 
   

300 Block of Sycamore Street
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  300 Sycamore Street

1900s-1920s
Isadore Greenberg & Family
Isadore & Fannie (Auerbach) Greenberg

  305 Sycamore Street

1906

  307 Sycamore Street

1906


Intersection of Sycamore Terrace & Sycamore Street
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300 Block of Sycamore Street
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  306 Sycamore Street

1906

308 Sycamore Street

-1905
Benjamin Braker

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 18, 1905

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  309 Sycamore Street

1896-1900
Mrs. Mary Hill

310 Sycamore Street

1910

1930-1977
Francesco Battaglia & Family
Francesco & Maria Giovanna Battaglia
Leon Battaglia
Anthony Battaglia
Frank Battaglia Jr.
Mary Battaglia Staffieri
Josephine Battaglia Talla
Rose Battaglia McMullen

Camden Courier-Post
October 11, 1949

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the
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Frank Senatore
Anthony DiVello
Frank Cavallo

 

310 Sycamore Street

1910

1930-1977
Francesco Battaglia & Family
Francesco & Maria Giovanna Battaglia
Leon Battaglia
Anthony Battaglia
Frank Battaglia Jr.
Mary Battaglia Staffieri
Josephine Battaglia Talla
Rose Battaglia McMullen

Camden Courier-Post
April 27, 1970

1930-1977
Francesco Battaglia & Family
Francesco & Maria Giovanna Battaglia
Leon Battaglia
Anthony Battaglia
Frank Battaglia Jr.
Mary Battaglia Staffieri
Josephine Battaglia Talla
Rose Battaglia McMullen

Camden Courier-Post
July 12, 1977

 

  311 Sycamore Street

1910

  312 Sycamore Street

1910

  313 Sycamore Street

1910

  314 Sycamore Street

1910

  315 Sycamore Street

1880s
William B. Stephens

  316 Sycamore Street

1910

  317 Sycamore Street

1910

  318 Sycamore Street

1910

  319 Sycamore Street

1910

  320 Sycamore Street

1910

  321 Sycamore Street

1893
William Quemore & Family
William & Emma Quemore
huckster

322 Sycamore Street

1880
Samuel Lodge

  323 Sycamore Street

1910

324 Sycamore Street

Photograph taken March 16, 2012

324 Sycamore Street

1915
William Davison

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 28, 1915

  325 Sycamore Street

1910

  326 Sycamore Street

1910

  327 Sycamore Street

1910

  328 Sycamore Street

1910

  329 Sycamore Street

1910

330 Sycamore Street

1880
Andrew Miller & Family

  331 Sycamore Street

1910

  332 Sycamore Street

1910

333 Sycamore Street

1885 Samuel Hudson

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 1, 1986

334 Sycamore Street

Photograph taken March 16, 2012

334 Sycamore Street

Camden Courier-Post
April 6, 1940

Joe Brancho

334 & 336 Sycamore Street

Photograph taken March 16, 2012

` 335 Sycamore Street

1967 Emilio Fiore

` 336 Sycamore Street

Photograph taken March 16, 2012

336 & 338 Sycamore Street

Photograph taken March 16, 2012

336 & 338 Sycamore Street

Photograph taken March 16, 2012

  337 Sycamore Street

1910

338 Sycamore Street

Photograph taken March 16, 2012

  339 Sycamore Street

1910

  340 Sycamore Street

1910

  341 Sycamore Street

1910

 

  342 Sycamore Street

1910

  343 Sycamore Street

1915 Antonio Bruno
1915 Adolfo D'Angelo

  344 Sycamore Street

1910

  346 Sycamore Street

1910

  348 Sycamore Street

1870s-1880s
Lewis H. Stehr Sr. & Family
Lewis & Mary Stehr
Lewis Stehr Jr.
Samuel Stehr

350 Sycamore Street

1905-1908
George R. Thompson & Family
Justice of the Peace
George R. & Harriet Thompson
George R. Thompson Jr.
Marshall Thompson

Philadelphia Inquirer
February 25, 1906

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Henry Moffett


400 Block of Sycamore Street
420 Sycamore Street

1868
James Emely
Denorah Davis

Philadelphia Inquirer
August 7, 1868

  428 Sycamore Street

1904
Oliver S. Guthrie & Family
Pennsylvania Railroad Police Detective
Oliver & Mary Eva Guthrie
Oliver S. "Ollie" Guthrie III

428 Sycamore Street

1940-1941
Edward G. Hunt

Camden Courier-Post
July 29, 1941

Clay W. Reesman
Chestnut Street
Joseph Klein

Liberty Street

George H. Ewing
Clinton Street

William Bovell

   

500 Block of Sycamore Street
  500 Sycamore Street

600 Block of Sycamore Street - 1962
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600 Block of Sycamore Street
601 Sycamore Street

1905-1906
Joseph Fine & Family
Joseph & Ida Fine
grocer

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 2, 1905

 

  601 Sycamore Street

1942
Abraham Baskoff
grocery
Maurice W. Baskoff
aka
Martin W. Baskow

604 Sycamore Street

1909-1910 Lee Thomas

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 11, 1910

609 Sycamore Street

1894
Thomas Brown aka Abraham Briscoe

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 12, 1893

613 Sycamore Street

1905
Howard Truitt

Camden Daily Couirier
March 23, 1905

Central Avenue

613 Sycamore Street

1905
Howard Truitt

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 24, 1905

Central Avenue - Dr. Grant E. Kirk
Dr. A. Haines Lippincott

613 Sycamore Street

1927-1928 George Nixon

Camden Courier-Post
February 21, 1928

 

619 Sycamore Street

1917 Herbert Lamb

Philadelphia Inquirer
February 9, 1917
&
July 24, 1917

Harry Cross
Charles W. Moore
Sycamore Street
Herbert Lamb
Baxter Street

  620 Sycamore Street

1947 James Anderson

BOY HURT AT CIRCUS

Joseph Hackett, 10, colored, of 622 Sycamore Street, was treated at Cooper Hospital yesterday for a wound he said was caused when a side­show attendant at Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus threw a brick. Police could find no brick thrower. 

622 Sycamore Street

1933 Joseph Hackett

Camden Courier-Post
June 16, 1933

625 Sycamore Street

1906 Nettie Dickson

Philadelphia Inquirer
May 21, 1906

Seth D. Monell
Alfred Hayden
William Rose
Engine Company 8

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631 Sycamore Street

1928 Arthur Baynard

Camden Courier-Post
February 23, 1928

  631 Sycamore Street

1896
Henry Jones
fisherman

635 Sycamore Street

1891-1892
Blue Anchor Hotel
Albert Holland

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 5, 1891

635 Sycamore Street

1891-1892
Blue Anchor Hotel
Albert Holland

Philadelphia Inquirer
April 8, 1892

Randolph Whitler
Ida Burton

636 Sycamore Street

1930s-1940
Leroy Hatchett & Family
Leroy & Hazel Hatchett


600 Block of Sycamore Street
Sanborn Map
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620 Sycamore Street - June 17, 2006
Story and Photo: Bob Bartosz

Busy 24 Hours in Camden NJ - 6 Working Fires along with  a Rescue





Camden Firefighters  had  a Busy 24 hour tour  starting on June 16th and ending on June 17th with Four All Hands Fire and  Two  second alarms all in the South Camden section of the city. 

The first job was a working fire in a row of two story dwellings in the 1200 block Morton Street.  Later that day they had a working fire in the middle of a row of two story dwellings in the 700 block of Spruce Street a few hours latter in the am hours they were call to the 700 block of Cherry Street

First in companies found heavy fire show in a large 3 story brick dwelling that put  all companies to work with in minutes part of the  structure collapsed  Battalion 1 called for a second alarm. A few minutes latter while to fire was going another alarm came in for a working fire at 908  Haddon Avenue, about 6 blocks away. 

As the companies were coming in they found another blaze a block away from the first job, in a row of 2 story dwellings  at 903 Haddon Avenue. 

Fire Radio put in a Special call to Camden County Fire Units to respond into the City, Fire Companies from Gloucester City, Oaklyn, Westmont, Collingswood, Pennsauken Township were put to work fight these blazes. By 4:30 AM all the fires were placed under control. 

A few hours later Firefighters were dispatched to 620 Sycamore Street for an Explosion and Fire with reports of people trapped. Engine 8 was first in with  Captain Dan Baker. He reported he had the end of a row brick 2 story dwelling that had exploded  and had numerous people injured and one  victim still  trapped on  the collapsed second floor and  he requested the Second Alarm to be transmitted. 

Rescue 1 was arriving with Captain Frank Sandrock and Battalion 1  Chief  Daryl Lewison along with Squad 7 and Engine 1 and Ladder Companies 2 and 1  and Battalion Chief 2 Mike Dipascale on the second alarm with Engine Companies 6 and 9, Ladder 3 and Special Operations Rescue  unit and Car 3 with Deputy Chief Mike Harper  and Chief of Department Joseph Marini in Car 1. 

Firefighters could hear a female calling for help from the collapsed  second floor.

Firefighters went to work shoring up the collapsed building.  Captain Sandrock of Rescue 1 was OPS Officer. About 30 minutes later firefighters were able to get to the badly injured woman. She had burns over 70 percent of her body. Rescue 1 firefighter Eli Hall was sent up the ladder  to bring her down. Camden EMS removed her to Cooper Hospital Trauma. 

Two other males were blown out of the second floor of the building onto the street and were taken to the hospital by Camden  EMS. Two of the victims were admitted in critical condition. Car 3 Harper place the assignment control. 

The explosion is under investigation by the Camden Fire Marshal Office and Camden Police Arson Unit along with the ATF.

Cherry Hill Twp Canteen Unit RIT team and Rehab Unit, and County Fire Police and Camden County Field Com units were Special called. This was a Busy 24 hours with 4 All Hands and 2 second alarm fire and a life saving rescue.

 

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700 Block of Sycamore Street
  700
Sycamore Street

1900 Robert Matthews

  701
Sycamore Street

1926
Max Weisfeld

 

 

702
Sycamore Street
  703
Sycamore Street
704 Sycamore Street

1902-1903 Mary Warrick

Camden Post-Telegram
January 27, 1903

Zachariah Harris - Joseph Nowrey

  705
Sycamore Street
  707
Sycamore Street
710 Sycamore Street

1912
Lester Sharp

Camden Post-Telegram
December 26, 1912

 

710 Sycamore Street

1912
Lester Sharp

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 27, 1912

State Street
South 8th Street
Sycamore Street
William T. Boyle

710 Sycamore Street

1917
Oliver Brown

Helen Kirpick - South 7th Street
George Fisher -
Federal Street
Robert Reese - Mary J. Price
North 25th Street

Philadelphia Inquirer
February 19, 1917

 

CIRCUS 'ECHO' IN COURT

Armed with a contract and all set for a "clean up," Russell Fleming, 710 Sycamore Street, arrived at the scene of his work only to find the job had been usurped by a Philadelphian, Fleming told Police Judge Pancoast Saturday when he appealed to him to settle, an argument over the job. 

Fleming said he was given a contract by Hagenbeck-Wallace circus to clean up the circus grounds on State Street Friday morning after the circus had departed. For his work, Fleming said, he was to get the refuse, to be sold as fertilizer. 

He went to the circus grounds, he said, all set to go to work and found Henry Rothblath, 53, of 2549 Rees Street, Philadelphia, had already hauled away four loads. Rothblath refused to return the four loads of refuse, Fleming said, so he had him arrested.

Judge Pancoast decreed that Rothblath erred in hauling away the four loads of refuse and sent him to jail for 60 days.

710 Sycamore Street

1933 Russell Fleming

Camden Courier-Post
June 19, 1933

 

712 Sycamore Street

1900 James Painter aka Butler Hall

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 23, 1900

Arthur Stanley
Edward S. Hyde
Joseph Nowrey

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 of Complete Article

  714 Sycamore Street

1900 Randolph Whitler
1900 Ida Burton

716 Sycamore Street

1917 James Buck

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 24, 1917

O. Glen Stackhouse
Herbert Lamb
Baxter Street


718 Sycamore Street

1919-1920
John Cross

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 10, 1920

Oscar Manion
Henry Street
Ann Street

  720
Sycamore Street
  722
Sycamore Street
  724
Sycamore Street
  726
Sycamore Street
727
Sycamore Street

1901 Gilbert Massey

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 16, 1901

O. Glenn Stackhouse

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  728
Sycamore Street
  728-1/2
Sycamore Street
  730
Sycamore Street
732 Sycamore Street

1898 Ida Short

Camden Daly Telegram
May 11, 1898

Frank Eldridge - South 8th Street
George R. Thompson

  734
Sycamore Street
737 Sycamore Street

1901 Kate Eckert

Camden Post-Telegram
June 28, 1901

Sycamore Street - Boyer Court
George Robinson - Chrissy Strang
Mary Jetters - Thomas Read
Miriam Polk - Robert Matthews
Annie Irving Keeler

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Complete News Article

  738
Sycamore Street

1900 John & Kate Eckert

  739
Sycamore Street

1900 John & Kate Eckert

742 Sycamore Street

1899
William M. Butts Club

Camden Daily Courier
March 4, 1899

William M. Butts

742 Sycamore Street

1917
Private Eugene Davidson

  744 Sycamore Street
  745 Sycamore Street

1924
Perry Honey & Family
Perry & Annie Honey
Ida Honey - Fred Honey
Harvey Honey - Mary Honey
Grace Honey - Albert Honey
Alice Honey - Perry Honey
Annie Honey -
Lester E. Honey
Florence Honey

This building could be
737, 739, or 745 Sycamore

Photo taken June 30, 2006

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This building could be
737, 739, or 745 Sycamore

Photo taken June 30, 2006

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  746
Sycamore Street
  747
Sycamore Street

1947 Isaac Singer
grocer

   
   

Intersection of Sycamore Street & Maurice Street
Philadelphia Inquirer - August 9, 1916

Meyer Pinsky - The Pinsky Stores - Kaighn Avenue - Ann Street - Sycamore Street


Intersection of Sycamore Street & Maurice Street (aka Ann Street)
Looking North
on
Maurice Street
from
Sycamore Street

June 30, 2006

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700 Block of Sycamore Street
  750 Sycamore Street
  752 Sycamore Street
753
Sycamore Street

Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church

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2010 GONE

753
Sycamore Street

Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church

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2010 GONE

753
Sycamore Street

Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church

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2010 GONE

753
Sycamore Street

Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church

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2010 GONE

753
Sycamore Street

For a time in recent years, prior to the building being abandoned, the church was known as he Mount Olive Chritian Methodist Episcopal Church.

2010 GONE

753
Sycamore Street

Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church

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2010 GONE

753
Sycamore Street

Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church

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2010 GONE

754 Sycamore Street

1901 Kate Eckert

Camden Post-Telegram
June 28, 1901

Sycamore Street - Boyer Court
George Robinson - Chrissy Strang
Mary Jetters - Thomas S. Read
Miriam Polk - Robert Matthews
Annie Irving Keeler

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the
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756 Sycamore Street

1918-1927
Samuel Fisher & Family
Samuel & Mary Fisher
Roland Fisher - Jennie Fisher
Rosie Fisher - William Fisher
Samuel E. Fisher - Lillian Fisher

Camden Courier-Post
February 15, 1927

758 Sycamore Street

1910
Louise Johnson

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 26, 1910

758 Sycamore Street

1943-1951
Mrs. Cora Gibbs
Garland R. Carter
Gerentha E. Brown Carter

Camden Courier-Post
September 26, 1951

 

758 Sycamore Street

 

760 Sycamore Street

1927
Perry Honey & Family
Perry & Annie Honey
Ida Honey - Fred Honey
Harvey Honey - Mary Honey
Grace Honey - Albert Honey
Alice Honey - Perry Honey
Annie Honey -
Lester E. Honey
Florence Honey

 

762 Sycamore Street

1918 Jonas Davis

   
764 Sycamore Street

1926 Charles Bird

Camden Courier-Post
December 1, 1926

766 Sycamore Street

1932 William Green

Camden Courier-Post
June 2, 1932

Samuel M. Shay
Harold Gentile

766 Sycamore Street

1918
Thomas Frazier 

Philadelphia Inquirer
October 16, 1918

768 Sycamore Street

1914
Ada Stevenson

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 21, 1914

Arthur Stanley


Intersection of Sycamore Street & Clover Street 
   

700 Block of Sycamore Street
  780 Sycamore Street
  782 Sycamore Street
  784 Sycamore Street
  786 Sycamore Street
  788 Sycamore Street

Intersection of South 8th Street & Sycamore Street
Southeast Corner

1910s-1960s
Congregation Sons of Israel

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  Northeast Corner

1955
Hood's Garage


800 Block of Sycamore Street
  800 Sycamore Street
801 Sycamore Street

1896
Jacob
Jones
grocery

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 27, 1896

  807 Sycamore Street

1881-1885
Pierce Brown

  809 Sycamore Street

1880
Pierce Brown

811 Sycamore Street

1910
Joseph Duchneskie & Family
Joseph & Clara Duchneskie
George W. Willingmyre
Joseph Duchneskie
Lizzie Duchneskie

Left: Clara Tice Duchneskie

  819 Sycamore Street

October 1931
Earl Bundy

819 Sycamore Street

1937
William Nelson

Camden Courier-Post
February 24, 1937

Frank F. Neutze
Henry Wells
Van Hook Street

  822 Sycamore Street

1878
Pierce Brown

823 Sycamore Street

1956
Nathaniel Winthers

Camden Courier-Post
May 21, 1956

Sycamore Street
Hazelton Court
Locust Street
Pine Street
Cherry Street
Kaighn Avenue
Linden Street

 

824 Sycamore Street

October 1936
Earl Bundy

Camden Courier-Post
October 22, 1936

Lewis Liberman
John Burns
John Huston
Samuel P. Orlando

830 Sycamore Street

1954-1959
Thomas J. Carter

Camden Courier-Post
March 12, 1956

830 Sycamore Street

1954-1959
Thomas J. Carter

Camden Courier-Post
May 22, 1959

 

830 Sycamore Street

1960s Julia P. Dickerson

Camden Courier-Post
January 12, 1971

 

  831 Sycamore Street

1906
Adalbert Wojtkowiak & Family
Adalbert & Mary Wojtkowiak
Albert Wojtkowiak 
Mitchell Wojtkowiak

   

900 Block of Sycamore Street
  900 Sycamore Street
  908 Sycamore Street

1942 Casmeir Wojtkowiak

  910 Sycamore Street

1900s-1918
Stanislaus Chudzinski Family
Stanislaus & Pelagia Chudzinski
 Leon F. Chudzinski

916 Sycamore Street

1974-1975
Walter "Billy" Jones & FAmily
Walter & Jean Jones

Camden Courier-Post
January 3, 1975

  917 Sycamore Street

1880 Gus Glandes
1887 August Corson
1890 John Melcher

917 Sycamore Street

1914-1940s
John M. Welsh Sr. & Family
John M. & Catherine Welsh
John M. Welsh Jr.
Edgar M. Welsh

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 19, 1915

Joseph Wojtkowiak
O. Glen Stackhouse
William J. Kraft

  917 Sycamore Street

1980 M. Wilson

  919 Sycamore Street

1880-1906 Connard Heck Family

1906 John M. Welsh
1924-1929 Joseph Kwoka
1940s-1974 Edgar M. Welsh & Family
Edgar & Elizabeth Welsh

Destroyed by fire around 1978-1979

  921 Sycamore Street

1880 Sarah Brown
1887-1888 Gottlob Liebich
1929 Andrew Bialoskurski
1947 Oscar Lampkin
1947-1973

Destroyed by fire around 1978-1979

  923 Sycamore Street

1880 Mary Tilman
1887-1890 Moses Stevens
1887-1888 Rev. William Wayman
Gone before 1924

  917-923
Sycamore Street

917, 919, 921, and 923 were willed to John M. Welsh by my Great Grandfather John J. Welsh the builder. The large rear yards of 919-921 were used as a used firewood business by my Grandfather and father Edgar until the late 1950’s. All of the inventory was destroyed in the late 1950’s in a large fire. John M. Welsh (died 1936) and my Grandmother Catherine (died 1944) (nee Duey or Dewey). 917 was owned by John M Welsh Jr. and was lost to his ex-wife Helen Welsh/Helen Polanski in a divorce settlement. My parents lived in 919 and 921 until my father Edgar Welsh (died 1973) and Elizabeth moved in 1974. The 917, 919, and 921 homes were rented and burned to the ground sometime in 1978-1979. 921 was rented to my grandmother Anna from 1947-1973. My father told me that 923 was a mud house that collapsed in the 1920s. - Ed Welsh


1000 Block of Sycamore Street
  1000 Sycamore Street
1000 Sycamore Street

1937
Mrs. Eva Belle Hogate

Camden Courier-Post
August 26, 1937

Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church

  1007 Sycamore Street

1897
Henry C. Knowles & Family
Henry C. & Sarah Long Knowles
Alice Knowles

1007 Sycamore Street

1903 Thomas Lubinsky

Philadelphia Inquirer
February 1, 1903

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  1010 Sycamore Street

1899
Hugh McTaggart & Family
Hugh & Mary McTaggart
Hugh McTaggart Jr. - John McTaggart
Isabelle McTaggart - Esther McTaggart
Mary McTaggart - James McTaggart

1012 Sycamore Street

1932 Ernest Finney

Camden Courier-Post
May 7, 1932

Garfield S. Pancoast
Thomas Howard - Cherry Street
Robert Morton - Berkley Street
William Wallace - South 9th Street
Edward Barnes
George Baitzel

1012 Sycamore Street

1932-1947 Mrs. Sarah Finney

Camden Courier-Post
October 16, 1948

Engine Company 7

1017 Sycamore Street

Ludwig Stern & Family
Ludwig & Philippine Stern

Philadelphia Inquirer
February 20, 1894

  1019 Sycamore Street
Intersection of Sycamore Street and Alder Street
  1020 Sycamore Street
1024 Sycamore Street

1906 John Cowan

Philadelphia Inquirer
May 16, 1906

  1030 Sycamore Street

Intersection of Sycamore Street and Mt. Ephraim Avenue
Looking East
onto
Sycamore Street
across
Mt. EPhraim Avenue
   
   

1100 Block of Sycamore Street
  1102 Sycamore Street

1900
Hugh McTaggart & Family
Hugh & Mary McTaggart
Hugh McTaggart Jr. - John McTaggart
Isabelle McTaggart - Esther McTaggart
Mary McTaggart - James McTaggart

  1102 Sycamore Street

1900
Hugh McTaggart & Family
Hugh & Mary McTaggart
Hugh McTaggart Jr. - John McTaggart
Isabelle McTaggart - Esther McTaggart
Mary McTaggart - James McTaggart

1109 Sycamore Street

1887-1888
Michael McCaffery & Family

1111 Sycamore Street

1882-1883
Michael McCaffery & Family

Intersection of Sycamore Street & Orchard Street
1120 Sycamore Street

1933
Robert S. Smith

Camden Courier-Post
September 13, 1933

Convention Hall
Thomas Kauffman

 

BIRTHS
COOPER

Faith Mary, to Mr. and Mrs. Colin Joseph McCall, of 1124 Sycamore street,

 

1124 Sycamore Street

1938
Colin J. McCall & Family
Faith Mary McCall

Camden Courier-Post
February 16, 1938

1126 Sycamore Street

1919
Fred J. Wolford & Family
Irving Wolford

Camden Courier Post
August 4, 1919

Harrison White
William Schregler
George Nowrey
Henry Moffett
George V. Murry
Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church
Dr. Joseph L. Nicholson

1126 Sycamore Street

1949 Rebecca A. Faulhaber

Camden Courier Post
November 20, 1949

1128 Sycamore Street

1906
Bolesalus Green

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 2, 1906

Camillus Appley

1129 Sycamore Street

June 10, 2011

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  1131
Sycamore Street

1924 Perry Cass

1133 Sycamore Street

1932
A. Koski Brothers
moving and hauling

Camden Courier-Post
June 15, 1932

 

A man and woman were injured at 3.45 p. m., yesterday when an automobile struck a parked car at Fortieth and Federal Streets, according to Pennsauken Township police.

Mrs. Stella Pukala, 22, of 1218 Atlantic Avenue, received cuts and bruises of the face. John Foltynski, 35, of 1168 Ross Street, suffered cuts of the eye and head. Both were treated at West Jersey Hospital.

They were passengers in a car driven by Stanley Czajkowski, 24, of 1133 Sycamore Street. Pennsauken police said Czajkowski's car collided with another owned by George F. Eisle, 4507 Chestnut Avenue, Pennsauken. Eisle charged Czajkowski with reckless driving. Police also charged him with driving without a license.

1133 Sycamore Street

1938 Stanley Czajkowksi

Camden Courier-Post
February 7, 1938

YOST FINES 4 AUTOISTS IN PENNSAUKEN COURT

Fines for motor vehicle law violations were imposed on four autoists last night by Recorder George E. Yost, in Pennsauken.

Stanley Czajowski, 24, of 1133 Sycamore street, Camden, was fined $10 and $2.50 costs for having no drivers' license; Robert A. Young, 24, of 408 Linden avenue, Riverton, $5 and $2.50 in costs for speeding; Heronim Wisiewski, 26, of 102 Linden avenue, Woodlynne, $7.50 and $2.50 costs for speeding and passing red light, and Edward King, Jr., 21, of 1242 Whitman avenue, Camden, $2.50 and $2.50 costs for passing red light.

1133 Sycamore Street

1938 Stanley Czajkowksi

Camden Courier-Post
February 8, 1938

1142 Sycamore Street

1913
Konstanty Ostrowski

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 4, 1913

May Sherlock - Penn Street
Cooper Hospital
George Lehman -
Carpenter Street
Frank Sapp

Charles G. Garrison
Walnut Street
Ethel McCormick - Mary Mistral

1146 Sycamore Street

1907
Leon Sanoski & Family

Philadelphia Inquirer
April 7, 1907

Dr. William S. Jones
Arthur Stanley
Charles A. Wolverton
E.E. Jefferis
Cooper Hospital

1146 Sycamore Street

1955
V-J Beverage

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

 

  1149
Sycamore Street

1919 Harrison White

  1150
Sycamore Street

1928-1929
Mitchell Wojtkowiak
city fire fighter

  1152
Sycamore Street

1927-1928
The Klopp Family

Adam Kolb Sr. was the proprietor of a bar at 302 Spruce Street. He died between April 5 1877, when his will was dated and April 23, 1877, when a document states that his wife “Mary Magdalena Kolb” is now executor of the deceased Adam Kolb’s estate. Adam’s will left his money and “real estate” to his wife Mary Magdalena Kolb for the remainder of her natural life. Upon her death, half was to go to the Trinity German Lutheran Church in Camden and half to the Children’s home in Germantown. Mary Magdalena could not write and signed with her mark. 

By 1880 the bar at 302 Spruce Street was no longer being run by the Kolb family, although Mary Magdalena may still have held title to the property.

Mary Magadalena Kolb remarried on August 29, 1878. Her second husband,  John Daniel Hahn is listed in Chew's 1878-1879 Camden City Directory as a hostler, residing at 21 North 4th Street. The 1878-1879 Directory shows John Hann at 1159 Sycamore Street. Subsequent entries in the City Directories are quite interesting, and point to a conclusion that Mary Magdelean Kolb and her second husband may have parted ways. The Howe’s Camden Directory of 1885–1888 lists "Kolb, Mary, widow of Adam, home 1159 Sycamore". Howe’s Camden Directory of 1884-85 has a listing for "Hahn, Daniel, home 618 N. Front". This indicated that John Daniel Hahn is living with his married daughter Christina "Anna" Dellmuth, whose husband, Henry Dellmuth owned a bakery. John Daniel Hahn died on February 11, 1886 in Philadelphia at the house of another daughter. According to the Camden Lutheran Church record he left his widow, Mary Hahn, exactly $1 in his will. Mary Magdalena Kolb Hahn died in June of 1889 and was buried at Old Camden Cemetery on June 27, 1889.

1159
Sycamore Street

1878-1880s
Mary Magdelena Kolb Hahn

  1169
Sycamore Street

1929-1930
Mitchell Wojtkowiak
city fire fighter

1171 Sycamore Street

1927
Mitchell Wojtkowiak
city fire fighter

1957
Mrs. Stella Blaszko-Foster

Camden Courier-Post
June 3, 1957

Bertha Foster - Agnoes Mrezowski
Josephine Jaworski - Jennie Tulini
Gregory Blaszko - Stanley Foster
Michael Foster

1172 Sycamore Street

1911
John Mozier

Camden Daily Courier

Sycamore Street
Ignack Wieck - Josephine Wieck
Philip T. Colding - Green Street

1172 Sycamore Street

1911
Ignac Wieck & Family
Ignac & Josephin Wieck

Camden Post-Telegram
April 17, 1911

Philip T. Colding
John Mosier
Green Street

 

1172 Sycamore Street

1920
John Oramic

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 23, 1920

 

  1176
Sycamore Street

1919-1923
Elmer Richards & Family
Elmer & Matilda "Tillie" Richards
Elmer Richards Jr.
Ella Richards

 

1178
Sycamore Street

1915-1925
Elmer Richards & Family
Elmer & Matilda "Tillie" Richards
Elmer Richards Jr.
Viola Richards
Bertha Augusta Richards
Laurence Richards

Albert James & Family
Albert & Bertha A. Richards James

Camden Daily Courier
June 8, 1925

Address was misreported as 778 Sycamore

Thomas Jack
Harry Rowland
Nicholas Katzenbach


1178 Sycamore Street

1928
Joseph Leconey

Camden Courier-Post
February 16, 1928

Joseph Romanowski
Joseph Carpani

Walter Smith

Sycamore Street

Rose Street

1180 Sycamore Street

1906
Joseph Polnick

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 2, 1906

Tony Romanio - Atlantic Avenue

MAN GIVEN 30 DAYS IN STOLEN GOODS CASE

Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday sentenced Spencer Murray, 52, colored, of 1181 Sycamore Street, to 80 days in the county jail after finding him guilty of receiving stolen goods. Murray is alleged to have sold $2000 worth of copper template stolen April 1 from the Camden Pottery Company, Mt. Vernon and Orchard Streets, to a Philadelphia junk dealer. He received about $3.25 for it, he said, atter buying it for $2.95 from Paul K. Obylinskl, 16, of 1506 Norris Street, and Edward Wisniewski, 17, of 1359 Jackson Street. The two youths were convicted recently of the theft. 

1181 Sycamore Street

1933 Spencer Murray

Camden Courier-Post
June 20, 1933

  1187 Sycamore Street

1932 Stanley Busko

1193 Sycamore Street

1913 Mary Mistral

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 4, 1913

May Sherlock - Penn Street
Cooper Hospital
George Lehman -
Carpenter Street
Frank Sapp

Charles G. Garrison
Walnut Street
Ethel McCormick
Kostanty Ostrowski

1194 Sycamore Street

1915 Mrs. Wilhelmina Good

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 20, 1915

  1194 Sycamore Street

1917-1920s
Vincent Michalak & Family
William Michalak
policeman

  1196
Sycamore Street

1900s-1910
Vincent Michalak & Family
William Michalak


1200 Block of Sycamore Street
  1200 Sycamore Street
  1204 Sycamore Street

1917
John Zawojski aka John Gaylor
fire fighter

1927-1947
William Michilak & Family
policeman


Intersection of Louis Street & Sycamore Street
Looking South Along
Louis Street

August 26, 2001


1200 Block of Sycamore Street
  1200 Sycamore Street
  1227 Sycamore Street

1880s-1890s
Vincent Michalak & Family
Emigrated to USA 1880

1245 Sycamore Street

1941
Louise Nasonkowski
widow of Kazimer Nasonkowski

Camden Courier-Post
March 12, 1941

Edward Nason
Florence Nasonkowski Minford

1251-1253
Sycamore Street

Building erected after 1928

Photo taken June 10, 2011

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1251-1253
Sycamore Street

1934-1943
George M. Beringer Inc.
Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Chemists

Letter to Stockholders, March 9, 1936

  1251-1253
Sycamore Street

1947 Tire Hospital - Herbert Obus
1947 Penn-Jersey Bar Manufacturing Co.

1251-1253
Sycamore Street

1955
Jersey Supply Company

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad


The newspaper erred in naming Mr. Plevinsky "Joseph".

1252 Sycamore Street

1910-1911
Samuel Plevinsky & Family
Samuel & Cecelia Plevinsky

Philadelphia Inquirer
May 21, 1911

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1252 Sycamore Street

1927 Jennie Krauss

Camden Courier-Post
August 23, 1927

Green Street
Jennie Krauss
Decatur Street
John Adwntwski 
Lottie Medel
Whitman Avenue
Anthony Rodansky
Rose Rodansky

Anna Rodansky

1255 Sycamore Street

1941-1960
Walter Hall & Family
Walter & Helen Hall
Sandy Hall

I was born and raised at 1255 Sycamore Street, moved in 1960. My family, (Osinski's) all lived in the area. I attended Lincoln School and lived in a mostly Polish neighborhood.

Sandy Faries
June 29, 2011

Photo taken June 10, 2011

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  1256 Sycamore Street

1890s-1940s
John Zawojski & Family
John & Emma Zawojski
Frank Zawojski
John Zawojski aka John Gaylor

1920s-1940s
John Zawojski aka John Gaylor
fire fighter

 


Intersection of Sycamore Street & Haddon Avenue
1933
N.J. General Tire Co. Inc.

Camden Courier-Post
June 8, 1933

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1116 Sycamore Terrace

1928 John Burke

Camden Courier-Post
 February 10, 1928

Bernard Bertman
Watson Shallcross
Stanley Wirtz