A Tribute to A Place Called YORKSHIPA Tribute to A Place Called YORKSHIP
New York Shipbuilding Corporation | Yorkship Village | Yorkship School | Links Last Update: 02 Jan 2008
The Company: New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden NJ
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The Community: Yorkship Village (later known as Fairview)
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The School: Yorkship
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Yorkship Links and References
Featured Sites
Pat Cusick's Yahoo Group for Fairview
Michael Ruiz's Historic Fairview Village
Camden County Historical Society: New York Shipbuilding in World War II
Fairview - Yorkship Square War Memorial on Phil Cohen's excellent Camden history site
In the News
Plans Unveiled for $40 Million Camden Neighborhood Redevelopment, Department of Community Affairs press release, December 5, 2001
"Fairview Upgrade Targeted", Philadelphia Business Journal, June 23, 2003
Rutgers Fairview Neighborhood Partnership, Rutgers press release, February 20, 2003
"Land Ho! RCA Rubble Adds Ten Acres to Camden Port", Philadelphia Business Journal, October 24, 1997
"The new urbanism: How John Ruskin's ideas influenced generations of urban planners," by Diane Cornell. Rutgers Focus (February 4, 2000).
"A Ship to Remember," Camden Courier-Post, October 11, 2000
"USS New Jersey looking shipshape after new coat of paint", Camden Courier-Post, August 29, 2001
"USS New Jersey transfer to new pier postponed", Camden Courier-Post, August 30, 2001
"3 property owners fight city's plans for renewal," Camden Courier-Post, February 13, 2003
In the Library
* Books *
50 Years: New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, N.J. (1949) - company publication
Abandon Ship!: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster, by Richard F. Newcomb (HarperCollins, 2001) - reissue of the 1958 book, updated by Peter Maas
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors, by Doug Stanton (Henry Holt, 2001)
New York Shipbuilding Corporation - A Record of Ships Built (1921) - company publication, 66 pages
Ordeal by the Sea : The Tragedy of the U.S.S Indianapolis, by Thomas Helm (Signet, 2001)
Organizing the Shipyards; Union Strategy in Three Northeast Ports, 1933-1945, by David Palmer
Planning the Twentieth-Century American City, edited by Mary Corbin Sies and Christopher Silver (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) Note: Chapter 5 is devoted to Yorkship Garden Village
Ships for the Seven Seas: Philadelphia Shipbuilding in the Age of Industrial Capitalism, by Thomas R. Heinrich (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
Trapped at Pearl Harbor : Escape from Battleship Oklahoma, by Stephen Bower Young (Naval Institute Press, 1998)
* Flatfile *
THE FIRST WAR EMERGENCY GOVERNMENT TOWNS FOR SHIPYARD WORKERS: Yorkship Village at Camden, New Jersey, by Richard S. Childs. 11 pp. 1918. (pamphlet)
"The First War Emergency Government Towns for Shipyard Workers: I. `Yorkship Village' at Camden, N.J." by Richard S. Childs, American Institute of Architects Journal 6 (May 1918):249-251.
New York Shipbuilding Corp. v. United States, 385, F.2d 427, 180 Ct.Cl. 446 (1967) Note: Supreme Court case.
"International Influences on Urban Design: The Impact of the Aesthetics of British Guild Socialism on Yorkship Village in Camden, NJ" by Dr. Michael H. Lang. Planning History Vol. 15 No. 1., 1993
"Yorkship Garden Village: Progressive Expression of the Housing and Planning Reform Movement" by Dr. Michael H. Lang. Planning the American City: History, Practice and Prospects, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
On the Web
Yorkship Elementary School official web site
FAS Profile: New York Shipbuilding
Asbestos Industry: Shipyards: New York Shipbuilding Early, Ludwick, Sweeney, & Strauss (Note: law firm representing asbestos exposure claimants)
Broadway Terminal of the South Jersey Port Corporation
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