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Camden County, New Jersey

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100historic places

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1844formed

523,485pop. 2020

26cemeteries

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At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 100 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 2 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Camden, Haddonfield, Haddon Heights.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for New Jersey is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Camden titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

68 of 100 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

100 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
American National Bank	Camden	Building	1990
Barclay Farm House	Haddonfield	Building	1978
Bennett, Volney G., Lumber Company	Camden City	Building	1993
Berlin Historic District	Berlin	District	1995
Blackwood Historic District	Blackwood	District	1989
Bonnie's Bridge	Cherry Hill	Structure	1984
Broadway Trust Company	Camden	Building	1990
Building 17, RCA Victor Company, Camden Plant	Camden	Building	2002
Building 2, RCA Victor Complex	Camden	Building	2019
Building at 525 Cooper Street	Camden	Building	1990
Burrough-Dover House	Pennsauken	Building	1973
Camden Fire Insurance Association	Camden	Building	1990
Camden Free Public Library Main Building	Camden	Building	1992
Camden Safe Deposit & Trust Company	Camden	Building	1990
Cattell Tract Historic District	Merchantville	District	1994
Centennial House	Merchantville	Building	1991
Central Trust Company	Camden	Building	2005
Chew-Powell House	Blenheim	Building	1975
Church of the Immaculate Conception	Camden	Building	2003
Cole Landing Tavern	Gloucester Township	Building	2020
Coles, Samuel, House	Cherry Hill	Building	1973
Collings-Knight Homestead	Collingswood	Building	1987
Collingswood Commercial Historic District	Collingswood	District	1990
Collingswood Residential Historic District	Collingswood	District	1990
Collingswood Theatre	Collingswood	Building	1982
Collins and Pancoast Hall	Merchantville	Building	1984
Cooper Grant Historic District	Camden	District	1989
Cooper Grant Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Camden	District	2015
Cooper Library in Johnson Park	Camden	Building	1980
Cooper River Park Historic District	Collingswood Borough	District	2016
Cooper Street Historic District	Camden	District	1989
Cooper, Joseph, House	Camden	Building	1973
Dorrance, Arthur, House	Merchantville	Building	1994
Downey, James M., Building	Camden	Building	1990
East End Trust Company	Camden	Building	1990
Ellis, Col. Joseph, House	Haddon Heights	Building	1994
Fairview District	Camden	District	1974
Federal Building and Courthouse	Camden	Building	2012
Finance Building	Camden	Building	1990
First Camden National Bank & Trust	Camden	Building	1990
Four Echelon Plaza	Voorhees Township	Building	2026
Gatehouse at Colestown Cemetery	Cherry Hill	Building	1975
Glendale Methodist Episcopal Church	Glendale	Building	1995
Gloucester City Water Works Engine House	Gloucester City	Building	1998
Glover Fulling Mill Site	Haddon Heights	Site	1990
Glover, Isaac, House	Haddon Heights	Building	1994
Grant A.M.E. Church	Chesilhurst	Building	1977
Greenfield Hall	Haddonfield	Building	1974
Haddon Fortnightly Club House	Haddonfield	Building	1972
Haddonfield Historic District	Haddonfield	District	1982
Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site NHL	Haddonfeild	Site	1994
Hillman Hospital House	Glendora	Building	1977
Hinchman-Lippincott House	Haddon Heights	Building	1995
Indian King Tavern	Haddonfield	Building	1970
Inter-County Mortgage and Finance Company	Camden	Building	1990
Kay-Evans Farm	Cherry Hill Township	Building	2000
Lawnside School	Lawnside Borough	Building	2015
Long-A-Coming Depot	Berlin	Building	1997
Lucas, John, House	Gibbsboro	Building	2019
Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal Church	Camden City	Building	2012
Marcouse Building	Camden	Building	1990
Marshall, Robert, House	Blenheim	Building	2008
McGuire, Peter J., Memorial and Gravesite	Pennsauken Township	Object	2019
Mickle, Samuel, House	Haddonfield	Building	1975
Morgan, Griffith, House	Pennsauken Township	Building	1973
Mott, Peter, House	Lawnside	Building	1994
Mount Peace Cemetery and Funeral Directing Company Cemetery	Lawnside	Site	2009
National State Bank	Camden	Building	1990
New Jersey Safe Deposit and Trust Company	Camden	Building	1990
Newton Friends' Meetinghouse	Camden	Building	1971
Newton Union Schoolhouse	Camden	Building	1988
Oaks Historic District, The	Merchantville	District	1997
Pomona Hall	Camden	Building	1971
Ritz Theatre	Haddon	Building	2002
Sears, Roebuck and Company Retail Department Store-Camden	Camden City	Building	2000
Sharp, Edward, House	Camden	Building	1980
Smith-Austermuhl Insurance Company	Camden	Building	1990
Solomon Wesley United Methodist Church	Blackwood	Building	1989
South Camden Historic District	Camden	District	1990
South Camden Trust Company	Camden	Building	1990
South Jersey Gas, Electric and Traction Company Office Building	Camden	Building	2005
St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church	Camden	Building	2018
St. John's Episcopal Church and Burying Ground	Runnemede	Building	1980
St. Joseph Polish Catholic Church	Camden City	Building	2003
Station Avenue Business District	Haddon Heights	District	1989
Stokes-Lee House	Collingswood	Building	1987
Taylor, Dr. Henry Genet, House and Office	Camden	Building	1971
Thackara House	West Collingswood	Building	1987
Tomlinson, Ephraim and Sarah, House	Stratford	Building	2019
Tomlinson, Isaac, House	Pine Hill	Building	2005
USS New Jersey (BB-62)	Camden City	Structure	2004
Victory Trust Company	Camden	Building	1990
Westmont Theatre	Haddon Township	Building	2010
White Horse Pike Historic District	Haddon Heights	District	1988
Whitman, George, House	Camden	Building	1990
Whitman, Walt, House NHL	Camden	Building	1966
Whitman, Walt, Neighborhood	Camden	District	1978
Wilson Building	Camden	Building	1990
Woodlynne Log Cabin	Woodlynne	Building	1997
Woodruff, A. S. and Law Buildings	Camden	Building	1990

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Camden was formed in 1844 (1844-03-13) from Gloucester.

CAMDEN created from GLOUCESTER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Camden County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
25,422	34,457	62,942	107,643	190,508	255,727	300,743	392,035	471,650	508,932	523,485

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial	National Memorial	22.3 km
Independence National Historical Park	National Historical Park	23.1 km
Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site	National Historic Site	24.0 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

26 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 26 of 26 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Albertson Memorial Park	39.85229	-75.04016
Alms House Cemetery	39.78789	-75.08239
Ancora Psychiatric Hospital Cemetery	39.68938	-74.85472
Arlington Park Cemetery	39.96866	-75.0604
Berlin Cemetery	39.80122	-74.94517
Bethel Park Cemetery	39.96648	-75.05654
Blue Anchor Cemetery	39.69511	-74.87155
Calvary Cemetery	39.9315	-75.05795
Cedar Grove Cemetery	39.88817	-75.1149
Colestown Cemetery	39.93359	-74.99238
Crescent Memorial Park	39.97107	-75.0446
Evergreen Cemetery	39.92075	-75.10493
Gate of Heaven Cemetery	39.80594	-74.96044
Harleigh Cemetery	39.9259	-75.09245
Hopewell Cemetery	39.73455	-74.92127
Locustwood Cemetery	39.91826	-75.02413
Mount Peace Cemetery	39.87149	-75.04227
New Camden Cemetery	39.92011	-75.10017
New Saint Marys Cemetery	39.87095	-75.09656
Old Camden Cemetery	39.93447	-75.10911
Old Saint Marys Cemetery	39.89164	-75.11643
Saint Anthonys Cemetery	39.70694	-74.82415
Saint John's Episcopal Cemetery	39.8322	-75.06272
Saint Josephs Cemetery	39.83011	-75.06851
Sunset Cemetery	39.97675	-75.04514
Union Cemetery	39.89023	-75.11964

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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