Kaighn's Point and Philadelphia Ferry Company

The Kaighn's Point and Philadelphia Ferry Company was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey on March 15, 1859, and it purchased the assets of the former South Camden Ferry Company on June 21, 1861. The ferry from Kaighn's Point in Camden to Washington Street in Philadelphia had been established in 1816 by the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Steam-Boat Company. The Philadelphia terminal was moved to South Street in 1828. The company was reorganized as the South Camden Ferry Company on March 14, 1851, but service was discontinued because of financial losses in 1856.

In 1873, the company came under the control of Gen. John S. Schultze as agent for the New York partners of the banking house of Brown Bros. & Co. They were in the process of constructing a railroad from Keyport, N.J., to Camden and needed the ferry for connection to Philadelphia. The railroad project was abandoned after the Panic of 1873, but Brown Brothers continued to operate the ferry company. However, a short local railroad, the Camden, Gloucester & Mount Ephraim, reached the ferry terminal in 1873 and supplied it with some business.

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