Introduction
By Phil Cohen
Carbon Street, also known as Carbon Court and as Carbine Street, runs south from 1010 Spruce Street into the rear of the parking lot of what has been the Salvation Army headquarters in Camden since the 1960s. This lot had been the home of the Camden Home for Friendless Children from the 19th century into the late 1950s or early 1960s. The street originally ended at ground belonging to the Camden Cemetery; at some point after 1906 a section appears to have been acquired by the Home for Friendless Children.
Carbon Street does not appear in the 1885 Sanborn Map of Camden. It is listed in the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory, with a laborer, William Daly, living at 7 “Carbine Street.” By 1891, 10 houses stood on Carbon Street, numbered 901 through 910. No homes are listed in the 1924 Camden City Directory, however a Frank Long is listed at 905 Carbon Street in the 1929 edition. The 1930 Census shows two occupied homes on Carbon Street, the Long family at 905, and Louis Rivell and family at 908 Carbon. By 1932 all but one of the homes on Carbon Street were the property of the nearby Home for Friendless Children. As Louis Rivell was in 1928 employed as a janitor at the nearby Home for Friendless Children, the acquisition of the properties probably had already taken place.
The 1943 City Directory shows 905 Carbon Street as a vacant dwelling, and no homes are listed in the 1947 edition.
Carbon Street Map
Carbon Street, also known as Carbine Street.
Carbon Street — 1906
Carbon Street, 1906.
900 Block of Carbon Street — Occupants
City directory records, 1887–1943. All homes on Carbon Street were gone by 1943, having been acquired by the nearby Home for Friendless Children.
901 Carbon Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Gone |
902 Carbon Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Gone |
903 Carbon Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1895 | Albert Barczah (laborer) |
| 1895 | Albert Barczan |
| 1943 | Gone |
904 Carbon Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1903 | Antonio Wislouskie |
| 1903 | Antonio Wislonskie |
| 1905 | John M. Feltze |
| 1943 | Gone |
905 Carbon Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929–1930 | Frank Long & Family |
| 1929–1930 | Frank & Esther Long |
| 1929–1930 | Frank Long Jr. |
| 1929–1930 | Edna Long |
| 1929–1930 | Mahlon Long |
| 1929–1930 | Edward Long |
| 1929–1930 | Louis Long |
| 1943 | Vacant |
| 1947 | Gone |
906 Carbon Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Gone |
907 Carbon Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Gone |
908 Carbon Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Louis Rivell & Family |
| 1930 | Louis & Effie Rivell |
| 1930 | Eleanore Rivell |
| 1930 | Elizabeth Rivell |
| 1943 | Gone |
909 Carbon Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1909 | Pauline Salotta |
| 1943 | Gone |
910 Carbon Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1899 | Kraft Eicker & Family |
| 1899 | Kraft & Mary Niszler Eicker |
| 1943 | Gone |
Albert Barczah Injured at Division Street Crossing
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Albert Barczah, of 903 Carbon street, Camden, a laborer in Wood’s iron foundry, was struck by a Camden and Atlantic train about 6:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon while crossing the tracks at Division street on his way home from work. His scalp was cut and his collar bone and a rib were fractured.
Camden News Notes
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Antonio Wislouskie, of 904 Carbon street, was burned about the face and eyes while working at the Camden Nickel Works.
Feltze Arrested as Navy Deserter
Philadelphia Inquirer —
John M. Feltze, aged 22 years, was arrested at the home of his parents, at 904 Carbon street, Camden, yesterday as a deserter from the United States Navy. Feltze was asleep when he was surprised by Sergeants Schregler and Hyde. He submitted to arrest and was later taken to Newport by a detective. He is alleged to have taken French leave from the gunboat Constellation, now lying at Newport.
Kraft Eicker Obituary
Philadelphia Inquirer —
EICKER—On the 18th inst., Kraft Eicker, beloved husband of Mary Eicker, nee Niszler, aged 74 years. The relatives and friends of the family, also Shawmunkin Tribe, No. 87; Improved O. of R. Men, of Hammontown, N. J., and Sioux Tribe, No. 25, of Camden, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Wednesday afternoon, March 22, 1899, at 1 o’clock, from his residence, 910 Carbon street, near Camden Cemetery, Camden, N. J. Interment at Old Camden Cemetery.
Carbon Street — 1930 Census
Carbon Street, 1930 Census.
Carbon Street — 2011
Carbon Street, 2011.