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. |
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Map
published in 1914 showing Carteret Street Look for Carteret Street in the 9th Ward |
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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 |
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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 | |
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300 Carteret Street
1900 |
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, |
306 Carteret Street
1933 Joseph H. Mounce Camden Courier-Post |
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308 Carteret Street
1900-1915 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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308 Carteret Street
1900-1915 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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314 Carteret Street
1917-1924 |
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314 Carteret Street
1966 Camden Courier-Post
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326 Carteret Street
1962 Camden Courier-Post
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332 Carteret Street
1960 Camden Courier-Post
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336 Carteret Street
1927-1941 Camden
Courier-Post |
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336 Carteret Street
1927-1941 Camden
Courier-Post |
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336 Carteret Street
1927-1941 Camden
Courier-Post |
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346 Carteret Street
1964 Camden Courier-Post Peter DelGrande |
346 Carteret Street
Frederick Caperoon
& Family |
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400 Block of Carteret Street | |
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412 Carteret Street
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413 Carteret Street | |
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413 Carteret Street
1947-1955 Camden Courier-Post |
416 Carteret Street
1910s-1920s Joseph Ellis |
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417 Carteret Street
1900-1923 Camden Post-Telegram Perfect Thrift Building association No. 2 |
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417 Carteret Street
1923-1936 Camden Courier-Post Clifford
Carr - George Getley |
417 Carteret Street
1957-1962 |
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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
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422 Carteret Street
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426 Carteret Street | |
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 |
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428 Carteret Street |
429 Carteret Street
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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 Camden Courier-Post |
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439 Carteret Street
1906-1942 |
445 Carteret Street | |
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
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448 Carteret Street
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450 Carteret Street |
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
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451 Carteret Street
1924-1960s |
457
Carteret Street
1930s-1950s |
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457
Carteret Street
1954 Camden Courier-Post |
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460 Carteret Street
Richard S.
Everett Camden
Courier-Post
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460 Carteret Street | |
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460 Carteret Street
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461 Carteret Street
1912-1936 Camden Courier-Post
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463 Carteret Street
1959 Camden Courier-Post Leroy
Snyder
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Intersection of Carteret Street & Newton Avenue |
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Elm Street
Philadelphia Inquirer John Daly |
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