Broadway Baptist Church
George Reeser Prowell’s History of Camden County, New Jersey, 1886
The Broadway Baptist Church, located at Broadway and Cherry Street, was constituted in April, 1867, by Rev. Mark R. Watkinson, the pastor, and forty-seven members of the Second Baptist Church, who, withdrawing therefrom, formed the new church, with John B. Stygale, John Osier and Augustus M. Crissy, deacons. The ground on Broadway, below Spruce, was obtained, and on the St. John Street front was erected a brick building, in which the society worshipped until 1870, when a stone meeting-house was built on the Broadway end of the lot, at a cost of nearly eighteen thousand dollars. The pastors who served this church were Revs. Mark R. Watkinson, E. Evered Jones, Charles Johnson, Andrew J. Hay, E. Dallas Stagers.
In October, 1877, the church disbanded, and the pastor, Rev. E. D. Stagers, with thirty-six of the members, united and constituted the Tabernacle Baptist Church.