Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listings are the Andrew Thomas House, the Camden Masonic Temple and the Camden First Baptist Church. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1899 on, and the census since 1850.
The Camden post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Camden’s history is told.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.
1899Sheet 1 of 1Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
From Wikipedia’s history of Camden.
The post office at Camden was established in 1833. Camden was platted as a town in 1836.
The Camden Masonic Temple, New 1952 Camden High School Gymnasium and Andrew Thomas House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Camden, cut from the printed page as they were published.
distinguished gallantry on the field of Chancellorsville.” Returning home to New Jersey, he took charge of the business of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company at Camden, and was in a short time transferred to the superintendency of the West Jersey Railroad Company, from which he was promoted to the office of vice-president of that
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On the 28th of July, 1854, the Camden and Pemberton Agricultural Railroad Company was chartered, with authority to build a railroad from some point in Camden through Camden and Burlington Counties to some point in the borough of Pemberton.
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The Oswego County History tells us “the road called Mexico street was cut or extended from Camden to Vera Cruz, passing through the present towns of Amboy, Parish and Mexico about 1804.” It was the main road from Rome to Mexico, running through what was later called Vienna, up to Phelps’ tavern, then turning to the left, running up over Preston Hill, coming out onto what is now a main road from Camden to Mexico, not far from the Deacon Osborn place. The Mexico street
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Camden. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Camden.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Camden’s page.
Retake this view · +15The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Between 168 and 618 people in every census since 1850.
16 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Camden’s Wikipedia page.
The Camden post office opened in 1833, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
Three places: the Andrew Thomas House (listed 1984), the Camden Masonic Temple (2003) and the Camden First Baptist Church (2023).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (2), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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