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Early Settlement & Development

Early Settlement & Developmenthost2023-01-13T13:45:43-05:00

EARLY
SETTLEMENT

Initial European activity in the vicinity of present day Camden occurred along the banks of the Delaware River where the Dutch and the Swedish…
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THE FERRY
INDUSTRY

The earliest record of a license granted for a ferry service was to William Royden in 1688. This ferry presumably located on Cooper Street…
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INITIAL
TOWN SITES

Early settlement of the City of Camden is interwoven with the acquisition and transfer of land. A number of families who
owned land located…

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CONSOLIDATION OF
THREE SETTLEMENTS

The first three decades of the nineteenth century saw the development of the three settlements around the ferry sites at Coopers Point…
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INDUSTRIALIZATION

The location of Camden, situated between two water ways, the Delaware and Cooper Rivers, combined with its proximity to Philadelphia…

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DEVELOPMENT OF
NEIGHBORHOODS

A sudden influx of the population of Camden occurred in conjunction with the rise of industry during the last two decades of the Nineteenth Century…

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