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This early map of Camden, New Jersey, possibly from 1778, was drawn in pen and ink, pencil, and watercolor, with the direction north to the left. Arrows indicated the direction of the water's flow in the Delaware River, and a pale notation says that Camden is "located opposite to Philadelphia."
Apr 17, 2024 · Camden, city, seat (1844) of Camden county, New Jersey, U.S., on the Delaware River, there bridged to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1681, the year before Philadelphia was founded, William Cooper built a home near the Cooper River where it enters the Delaware and named the tract Pyne Point. Settlement, largely by Quakers, was slow.
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A number of entrepreneurs sought to build up rivals to Camden through development expected to follow from the establishment of turnpikes and railways. A number of these enterprises failed, including the Moorestown and Camden Turnpike, chartered in 1849 with the intent of boosting suburban development on the northeastern bank of Cooper’s Creek. More...
Until the mid-1950s, much of Delaware Township remained farmland, with the exception of a grouping of fine brick homes with generously proportioned lots and streets named for elite suburbs on Philadelphia’s legendary Main Line in the town’s Colwick section. That changed in the mid-1950s, as developers carved out new neighborhoods laced with tract h...
Blessed with an array of housing options and employment opportunities, the suburbs boomed in the mid-1960s and afterwards. With a population of 255,727 in 1940, Camden County climbed to 392,035 twenty years later. It added another 64,000 people over the next decade, when growth slowed considerably. As Irish, Italian, and other white ethnic families...
Outward movement from Camden continued in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as Black and Hispanic families followed the pattern of earlier outmigration, to the west sides of Cherry Hill and Collingswood and especially to Pennsauken. As the minority population grew there, and with it the number of children eligible for free school ...
Camden, county, southwestern New Jersey, U.S., bordered to the west by Pennsylvania, the Delaware River constituting the boundary. It comprises a lowland region drained by the Mullica and Great Egg Harbor rivers. The primary forest species are oak and hickory. Fort Nassau, near present-day.
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Jun 24, 2021 · Bordentown and South Amboy were intended as the railroad’s primary terminals. Camden was to be used as a terminal when ice on the Delaware prevented steamboats from moving between Bordentown and Philadelphia. In September 1832, the first section of railroad, 14 miles of single track, opened between Bordentown and Hightstown and by December ...
Jan 13, 2021 · Originally built in 1734 by Benjamin Cooper — grandson of William Cooper, a founder of Camden and friend of William Penn — the house was a tavern and stopover for travelers along the Delaware,...
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Website. www .ci .camden .nj .us. Camden is a city in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Camden is part of the Delaware Valley. [21] The city was incorporated on February 13, 1828. [22] Camden has been the county seat of Camden County [23] since the county was formed on March 13, 1844. [22]
