Behind the Victory Flagpole Where has downtown Camden gone?
Where has downtown Camden gone? To shop there you could not go wrong. So close it was to Mississippi That’s part of what made it so pretty. It started out …
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Articles pertaining to historical information to the Camden neighborhoods.
Behind the Victory Flagpole G and J Streets
How lucky we are to have our Camden streets named after wonderful and important men out of the past. So who are we talking about today? American philanthropist …
Behind the Victory Flagpole
Ode to the …
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Ode to the Victory …
Behind the Victory Flagpole The good old days
Oh yes, the good old days! They were probably back in the 1900s and 1920s. People back then were ingenious in knowing how to get along with simple things and …
Behind the Victory Flagpole Knox and Logan Streets
Knox Knocks This Camden street was named after Henry Knox, an American military officer; born in Boston on July 25, 1750. For his signal service at Yorktown he …
Behind the Victory Flagpole Two popular streets — Dupont and Emerson Avenues
The first street name I’ll talk about is Dupont Avenue. Samuel Francis Dupont was an American naval officer born in Bergen Point, New Jersey, September 27, …
Behind the Victory Flagpole It’s humming on Humboldt
Back when I was a teenager – some umpteen hundred years ago, I used to ride my bike down the “Drive” to Camden. On the way down I came to a …
Behind the Victory Flagpole The School’s Secret
Go down the “Drive” until you come to the Osseo Road and turn north. Go down approximately two or three miles, cross the border of Brooklyn Center …
Behind the Victory Flagpole – the progressive Christmas
“Over the river, and through the wood, to grandfather’s house we go; The horse knows the way, to carry the sleigh, through the white and drifted snow.” …