1889 - Camden Fire Department Engine Company 3 - South Camden, NJ
N 39° 55.302 W 075° 07.190
18S E 489759 N 4419073
This former, vacant and now dilapidated fire station was once the crown jewel in Camden's fire department. The dated stone is in the form of a reddish, roughly hewn brick, set into regular bricks, over the two center windows.
Waymark Code: WM80JZ
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 01/03/2010
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This building is a narrow, antiquated version of a modern-day station. it has a single bay and one small entrance. The Initials CFD are above the date stone.
Located in what was then Camden's Eighth Ward, Engine Company 2 was organized on June 1, 1890 and entered service on the same date at 1813 Broadway, just south of Ferry Avenue in South Camden. Approval for the purchase of land for this firehouse and for that of the new Engine Company 4 had been granted on September 4, 1889.
After 96 years of service, the firehouse was vacated in 1986 due to serious structural defects. Engine Company 3 was shifted to the former headquarters of Ladder Company 2 at 619 Kaighn Avenue. The unit moved one again, this time to the headquarters of Ladder Company 4 at 2500 Morgan Boulevard, and was disbanded at some point after 1994. The old firehouse at 1813 Broadway was sold to a private party, and was occupied as late as the fall of 2004.
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