Ocean County Historical Society

On the banks of its namesake river, the community of Toms River was first settled in the early 1700s by loggers drawn to the dense forests by the side of the water. During the Revolution, the growing village was a constant thorn in the side of the British, and was attacked and borned in 1783. The arrival of the railroad in the late 1800s ushered in an age of expansion that continues to this day.