CAMDEN — The Benjamin Cooper House still looks about the same as it did in January of last year, when a group of state, county and city officials toured Lot 1, Block 1, the first charted parcel in the City of Camden.  But that doesn’t mean there’s been no progress in the effort to turn the derelict, yet...

Preservationists in South Jersey hope to save a house that figured prominently in the Battle of Camden and other Revolutionary War skirmishes — by making it the centerpiece of a museum that also will highlight the role of Black, brown, and Indigenous people in the larger conflict.