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Johnson's Park

Johnson's park encompasses the Cooper Library formally known as the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center and marks the site of the Cooper's Ferry company. Cooper's Ferry was licensed in 1688 and helped in transporting products between Camden and Philadelphia. The area was a major point of transportation for the British and Hessian's during the Revolutionary War due to their capture of Philadelphia in September 1777.  Later it would serve as a terminal for stage coaches and a rail road terminal from 1834 to 1854 for the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company. Construction of the library would begin in 1916 and be completed on April 1918. The addition of the park would be donated in December 1921 by Eldridge R. Johnson, founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company who the park is named after. The addition of a fountain and several bronze statues happened later between 1923 and 1930. After the closure of the cooper library it would become known as the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center where theatrical performances were held. It would be deeded to Rutgers University for a dollar and be known as the Center for Performing Arts in Camden. Rutgers University-Camden converted the center into a classroom and has allowed performances to be held at the Gordon theater instead. Currently the building serves as a digital studies center and writing and design lab.

Joseph Cooper house

Joseph Cooper House is a historic site located in Pyne Point Park on 7th and Erie in Camden NJ. It was built by William Cooper and Joseph Cooper in 1695, this makes it the oldest structure in the city of Camden.The ten room manor was built in three sections, the first in dutch colonial style in the late 17th century was constructed from ironstone. The second part a two story addition was built using brick imported from England in the early 18th century.The house and the park where originally owned by the Cooper family and were both purchased by the city in 1913. Before being severely damaged by a fire in 2005, it served as a library and meeting house. In 2012 the city granted control of the house to the Cooper Ferry Partnership. They enlisted Jibe Design to develop an adaptive reuse plan in 2013; their plan was later approved by the Cooper Ferry Partnership. As of today Cooper Ferry Partnership is seeking funds for the refurbish of the building.

North Camden

History

North Camden was made part of the city of Camden in 1852. Originally composed of the lands north of Birch street and Linden street. Historically the purchased territory of William Cooper who built his home on what is now Coopers Point. He then built his estate on Pyne Point Park. There are only a few remaining structures still standing in North Camden that belonged to the original Cooper Family such as the Joseph Cooper House and Benjamin Cooper House. Joseph Cooper House is an old manor on Pyne Point built in 1695 by Joseph Cooper son of William Cooper. The Benjamin Coopers House is a farm house on Point and Erie street built in 1734 also known as the Old Stone Jug. Nearby there was Coopers Point Hotel on state street built in 1770 by Samuel Cooper. The hotel would later be purchased by the Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company and be used as an office building eventually to be torn down in 1896.

Benjamin Cooper House

The Benjamin Cooper House built as a two story dutch colonial home with an addition made later in the late 18th century. The main part of the house is built from stone the subsequent addition of brick. During the occupation of Philadelphia by the British and Hessian's forces in the American Revolutionary War it served as a headquarters for British Lt. Colonel Abercromby. In the early 19^th century it served as a pleasure garden and would be open in the springs and summers to the public. It served as the last ferry tavern in Camden and as a saloon in its later years known as the Old Stone Jug. Toward the end of the 19^th century it would be purchased by the John H. Mathis company and is currently owned by Flow Development and Technology.