Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Carteret
Street


Carteret Street, in Camden's old Ninth Ward, ran just two blocks, from the old Armory (later Convention Hall) in the 700 block of Mickle Street southeast, crossing Wright Avenue, to its end at Newton Avenue. It was laid and out and houses were built along it after 1891, a stone's throw from Camden's old City Hall at Haddon and Wright Avenues. The street ran parallel to Haddon Avenue to the west, and Warren Avenue to the east.. 

Carteret Street fell victim to "progress", that progress being the construction of Interstate 676 that in some ways was more devastating to Camden than the building of the Ben Franklin Bridge. There were still people living on Carteret Street as late as 1969 and Carteret Street was still there into the mid-1970s. Today Carteret Street is no more, having been erased at the Mickle Street end by the parking lot that lies adjacent to the "3 Cooper Plaza" medical building and at the Newton Avenue end by the highway. 

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

 Phil Cohen


Map published in 1914 showing Carteret Street
Look for Carteret Street in the 9th Ward
Look for Carteret Street in the 9th Ward

1946 Map of Camden

Carteret Street diagonally northwest to southeast, in upper right hand corner of map


Carteret Street
1961

This aerial photo, cropped from a larger photograph showing the dismantlement of the railroad that had run from the old ferry terminal through the heart of Camden, shows Carteret Street from it's "head" at he end of Mickle Street by the old Armory, known as "Convention Hall" when this picture was taken.  


300 Block of Carteret Street
300 Carteret Street

1900
Frank G. Hitchner & Family
Frank G. & Emma Hogan Hitchner

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Mounce of 306 Carteret Street, entertained on Tuesday evening in honor of their daughter, Miss Vera H. Mounce. 

Guests were Miss Louise Yost, Samuel McDonald of Merchantville; Miss Kathleen Ashton of Maple Shade; Miss Emily Smith, Miss Christina Simpson, Miss Cecelia Dixon, Miss Martha Hentschel, Miss Mildeo de la Reintrie, Miss Lorraine Moore, Miss Artemesia DePugh, 
Miss Genevieve Brady, James Hahs, Ford Smith, Milton Story, James Brooks of Camden; Thomas H. ,Walker, Collingswood; Peter Sharle, Albert C. Carter, John C. Kile, Charles E. Canning of Haddon Heights; George Hambreght of New York and Leslie Justice of Germantown.

306 Carteret Street

1933 Joseph H. Mounce

Camden Courier-Post
June 23, 1933

308 Carteret Street

1900-1915
Rev. John H. Hutchinson & Family
Rev. John & Mary F. Hutchinson
Mrs. Hannah Heisler

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 27, 1901

308 Carteret Street

1900-1915
Rev. John H. Hutchinson & Family
Rev. John & Mary F. Hutchinson
Mrs. Hannah Heisler

Philadelphia Inquirer
October 2, 1915

314 Carteret Street

1917-1924
Henry L. Barroway

314 Carteret Street

1966
Joseph A. Marks Jr.

Camden Courier-Post
January 14, 1966

 

326 Carteret Street

1962
Mrs. Ida M. Garrison

Camden Courier-Post
July 11, 1962

 

332 Carteret Street

1960
John G. Cline

Camden Courier-Post
March 26, 1960

 

336 Carteret Street

1927-1941
Daniel M. Stanton
Funeral Director
Mrs. Mary Stanton & Carroll J. Stanton

Camden Courier-Post
February 22, 1927

336 Carteret Street

1927-1941
Mrs. D.M Stanton & Son
Funeral Directors
Mrs. Mary Stanton & Carroll J. Stanton

Camden Courier-Post
June 3, 1932

336 Carteret Street

1927-1941
Stanton's Funeral Home
Mrs. Mary Stanton & Carroll J. Stanton

Camden Courier-Post
July 24, 1941

346 Carteret Street

1964
Frank Youker

Camden Courier-Post
December 31, 1964

Peter DelGrande

  346 Carteret Street

Frederick Caperoon & Family
Frederick B. & Pauline T. Caperoon

   
   

400 Block of Carteret Street
412 Carteret Street

1920s-1946

Gustav Schwoeri Jr.

  413 Carteret Street

Laura Veatch

413 Carteret Street

1947-1955
William W. Dowdney & Family
William & Mqrgaret Dowdney
Charles Dowdney
William J. DOwdney
Albert Dowdney
Margaret Dowdney Evridge

Camden Courier-Post
February 28, 1955

  416 Carteret Street

1910s-1920s Joseph Ellis

417 Carteret Street

1900-1923
William B. Slacum & Family
William B. & Annie Slacum
H. Claire Slacum

Camden Post-Telegram
October 28, 1901

Perfect Thrift Building association No. 2

417 Carteret Street

1923-1936
Jacob Mutzer & Family
Jacob & Minnie Mutzer
Kathryn Mutzer - Frederick Mutzer
Wilbur Mutzer - Helen Mutzer
Laura Mutzer - Edwin Mutzer 
Marianna Mutzer - Margaret Mutzer

Camden Courier-Post
August 10, 1936

Clifford Carr - George Getley
Chester Mignogna - Dominic Vizzone
Michael Meloni - Chester Mignogna
Dominic Vizzone - Carteret Street
South 5th Street
-
South 4th Street

  417 Carteret Street

1957-1962
C. Hobart Corson

Mr. and Mrs. Harold. G. Locke, of 3080 Mickle Street, have announced the birth of a daughter, Dorothy Virginia Locke, on Saturday, May 11. Mrs. Locke was formerly Miss Grace Ogden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lincoln Ogden of 421 Carteret Street.

421 Carteret Street

1933 A. Lincoln Ogden

Camden Courier-Post
JUne 4, 1933

422 Carteret Street

1955
Joseph G. Barnett
Plumbing & Heating Contractor

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

  426 Carteret Street

Wendela E. Jones

At age 81 I am the eldest grand daughter of Charles and Sarah Auerbach and can remember staying with my aunt Yetta in the family home on Carteret St. An outhouse was in the backyard but then removed. An indoor bathroom was installed on the 2nd. floor. I can remember the gas lamps being lit on the street. A park was nearby that we could walk to. Train tracks were behind the property and it was very noisy but it was fun watching the trains and learning to spell the names of the states that were printed on the boxcars. Yetta lived alone there for several years after her siblings moved away. Bessie, Freda and Frances moved to Philadelphia where as Freda worked as a secretary to the president of Kuhn and Blum curtain manufactures located in Kensington. Frances worked at Warner Brothers Cement in Philly. Bessie was ill with TB and had spent time in a sanitarium as a child and never held a job but stayed home to keep house and cook for the other two. In the early 60's these three moved to Miami when both Freda and Frances retired. They bought a house at 3120 NW 5th St. Tres (Teresa) and her husband, Joe Mazer, had moved to Miami after WWII. I moved to Miami in 1956 to go to school. Yetta sold the house on Carteret St. and bought a smaller one in East Camden where she lived until her death of uterine cancer in 1950. Sarah, my grandmother whom I am named after, also had died of the same disease. Charles passed away from pneumonia. I never knew either as they were gone by the time I was born. Issy (Isabel), before her marriage to Joe Wachtel was a grade school teacher at Garfield School in Est Camden. She lived with my mother, Flora Hazel, and father, Tanfield Kotlikoff. - Sarah Fiori, March 2019

428 Carteret Street

1916-1941
Charles H. Auerbach & Family
Charles H. & Sarah Halpern Auerbach
Yetta Auerbach 
Bessie Auerbach 
Freda Auerbach 
Frances Auerbach 
Mair Auerbach
Teresa Auerbach 
Isabel Auerbach 
Flora Auerbach

428 Carteret Street

Mair Auerbach

  429 Carteret Street

 

Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Pruyn and Mrs. Clara Gravenstein of 430 Carteret Street have opened their Pitman cottage for the summer.. 

430 Carteret Street

1933 L.M. Pruyn
1933 Mrs. Clara Gravenstein

Camden Courier-Post
June 20, 1933

439 Carteret Street

1906-1942
John Prentice & Family
John & Elsie Prentice

  445 Carteret Street

Thomas Flaherty

CHILD HIT BY CAR

Pushing his express wagon between a bus and private machine, Walter Derengowski, 4, of 1197 Lansdowne Avenue, was struck by a car driven by George Thompson, 450 Carteret Street, and taken to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital late Saturday night. He suffered cuts and bruises. The accident occurred at Haddon and Bradley avenues, where a bus was discharging passengers.

448 Carteret Street

George Thompson

Camden Courier-Post
October 26, 1931

  448 Carteret Street

1947-1950
Frank S. Cornell

450 Carteret Street

Frank B. Hanna

Mrs. Frank B. Hanna and daughter, Miss Betty Hanna of 450 Carteret street, leave today for Ocean City where they will spend the Summer. They will be joined over the weekends by City Commissioner Hanna.

450 Carteret Street

Frank B. Hanna

Camden Courier-Post
June 23, 1933

451 Carteret Street

1924-1960s
Frank B. Oppecker Sr.
& Family
Frank B. & Louise Oppecker
Frank B. Oppecker Jr.
Joseph Oppecker
Evelyn Oppecker

  457 Carteret Street

1930s-1950s
Walter J.A. Stanton Jr.

457 Carteret Street

1954
Ann G. Burke

Camden Courier-Post
June 12, 1954

460 Carteret Street

Richard S. Everett
Candy Store
1930s-1940s

Camden Courier-Post
October 2, 1936

 

  460 Carteret Street

1938 Joseph F. Markley Jr.

460 Carteret Street

1955
Capitol Heating Compnay

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

461 Carteret Street

1912-1936
Randolph W. Rudderow & Family
Randolph & Florence Shaffer Rudderow
Mrs. Annie Rudderow

Camden Courier-Post
September 11, 1934

T. Yorke Smith

 

463 Carteret Street

1959
Esther Edmonds

Camden Courier-Post
August 3, 1959

Leroy Snyder
Charles Kelly
Penn Street
Edmunds Street

 


Intersection of Carteret Street & Newton Avenue

219 Elm Street

Philadelphia Inquirer
April 13, 1917

John Daly
Elm Street

Newton Avenue

Carteret Street
Elisha Gravenor

 

 

 

 

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