Download e-book for iPad: Along the Toms River (Images of America) by Ocean County Historical Society

By Ocean County Historical Society

This attention-grabbing visible background beneficial properties greater than 2 hundred conscientiously chosen images that jointly record the folks, locations, and occasions that experience outlined town of Toms River and the encircling quarter. situated at the banks of the river of an identical identify, Toms River was once first settled within the early 1700s by way of loggers interested in the dense forests at the river�s banks. throughout the American Revolution, the village was once a relentless thorn within the facet of the British, and it was once attacked and burned to the floor in 1783. the coming of the railroads within the past due 1800s ushered in a brand new age of growth which, spurred on through the development of the backyard kingdom throughway within the decade after international battle II, maintains to this day.

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