Camden, New Jersey

Everything Camden is known for

7 songs mention this city 1 artist from here

Music in Camden

Songs About Camden

Seeing Green
Nicki Minaj
54%
"I should go cop a new jersey, that's word to Camden"
hittin' my stride
Muscadine Bloodline
22%
hittin' my stride
muscadine bloodline & ben chapman
10%
Homeless Brother
Don McLean
7%
"The Whitman wanderer walking toward a glowing inner light"
Understand Me
Chief Keef
6%
"In the barrel, look like a Cambell’s soup can"
Offended
Eminem
5%
"So, Kellyanne Conway"
The Man From God Knows Where
Tom Russell
4%
"Yeah, me and old Walt Whitman, we're the men from god knows where"

Artists From Camden

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Cheyenne Lavene
pop Pop: 20

Rivers & Roads in Song near Camden

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Camden.

Interstate 95 13 songs New Jersey Turnpike 4 songs

History of Camden

The Toynbee Tiles: Philadelphia's Sidewalk Mystery RoadyGoat

1983

The Toynbee Tiles are dozens of small handmade plaques pressed flat into the asphalt of Center City Philadelphia, most clustered along Chestnut Street, with copies found in roughly two dozen other U.S. cities. Each carries a version of the same cryptic text: "TOYNBEE IDEA / IN MOVIE '2001 / RESURRECT DEAD / ON PLANET JUPITER." They began appearing in Philadelphia around 1983, and for decades no one knew who made them. The 2011 documentary "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles," which won the U.S. Documentary directing award at Sundance, builds the case that the maker was a reclusive South Philadelphia man who dropped the tiles through a hole cut in his car floor, letting traffic press them into the road. He was never caught. Many original tiles have since been paved over and survive only in photographs. (Sources: Wikipedia; Paste; spottedbylocals.)

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The Mütter Museum RoadyGoat

1858

At 19 South 22nd Street in Philadelphia, inside the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Mütter Museum keeps a collection of medical oddities and anatomical specimens — over 37,000 of them, with roughly a tenth on display. Its stars include the Soap Lady, a 19th-century woman whose body naturally turned to a soap-like substance called adipocere; the Hyrtl Skull Collection of 139 human skulls assembled by Viennese anatomist Josef Hyrtl; and a set of microscope slides of Albert Einstein's brain. (Contrary to the popular line, the museum holds thin tissue slides of Einstein's brain, not the whole organ.) Towering over the main gallery is the Mütter American Giant, at 7 feet 6 inches the tallest human skeleton on exhibit in North America.

3.1 mi away

The Rocky Steps RoadyGoat

1976

The seventy-two stone steps on the east face of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, at 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, are the 'Rocky Steps' Sylvester Stallone sprinted up in the 1976 film, fists raised at the top. Tourists run them daily. The companion bronze 'Rocky' statue, commissioned by Stallone and made by sculptor A. Thomas Schomberg, first appeared at the top of the steps in 1982 for 'Rocky III.' The city argued it was a movie prop, not art, and exiled it to the Spectrum arena; it returned to a pedestal near the foot of the steps in 2006. (Note: in 2026 the statue was moved indoors for the museum's 'Rising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments' exhibition, so its exact spot can shift, but the steps themselves never move.) Painted footprints once marked the top.

3.5 mi away

Independence Hall

1732

Where the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were debated and signed.

Battleship New Jersey Museum, Camden

1942

The USS New Jersey, the most decorated battleship in U.S. Navy history, is now a museum ship on the Camden waterfront.

Liberty Bell Center

1751

Iconic cracked bell originally cast for the Pennsylvania State House, later adopted as a symbol by abolitionists.

First Bank of the United States

The President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, commonly known as the First Bank of the United States, was a national bank, chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United S

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First National Bank (Philadelphia)

First National Bank was a bank in Philadelphia. Chartered in 1863, it was the first national bank created under the banking reforms of the Civil War that began to define the modern U.S. banking system

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Walnut Street Prison

Walnut Street Prison was a city jail and penitentiary house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1790 to 1838. Legislation calling for establishment of the jail was passed in 1773 to relieve overcrowdi

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Things to Do in Camden

historical 3.2 mi away
Eastern State Penitentiary

Al Capone's cell. America's most haunted prison now a crumbling gothic ruin.

Everything Near Camden

221 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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