Publications
Books, Maps, and Media available from OCHS
The following sections contain a list of all publications available from the Ocean County Historical Society. We're very proud of the fact that many of the titles available were actually created and published by the OCHS.
If you wish to order publications, go to our Online Forms page and download the publications order form. All ordering information will be there for you. Visa and Mastercard are accepted.
Published By OCHS
Along The Toms River (Images of America)
By OCHS Publications Committee $20.00
Barnegat Bay Decoys and Gunning Clubs
By Patricia H. Burke. $10.00
Beachwood Borough Directory &
Who's Who, 1924
By William Mill Butler $32.00
Bergen Iron Works and Its Tokens
By William S. Dewey $12.00
Biographical Cyclopedia of Ocean County
By William Fischer $40.00
Chickaree in the Wall: One Room Schools in Ocean County
By Carolyn Campbell, Peryl King, and Martha Smith $10.00
Closed Sea: From the Manasquan to the Mullica
By Kent Mountford $25.00
David R. Anderson Funeral Register 1900-1918
Compiled by Carolyn Campbell $12.00
Diaries of Adelia Goble—Point Pleasant 1902-05
$15.00
Downshore from Manahawkin to New Gretna (Images of America)
By OCHS Publications Committee $17.00
Downtown Toms River—Way Back When (Turn of the Century Pictorial)
Compiled by William A. King and Adolph Woolley $10.00
Elizabeth Meirs Morgan—Historian, Botanist, and Environmentalist
$30.00
F. Slade Dale: The Life of His Choice
By Samuel V. Merrick $20.00
Island Heights and Windsor Park
(Reprint of 1888 Booklet) $6.00
Jersey Pine Barrens—Historic Industries
By The Society of Industrial Archeology $12.00
Life-Saving Along the Coast
By Captain R. F. Bennett
(Includes Surfboats, Rockets, & Carronades) $50.00
Living With The Pine Barrens
By Jack Cervetto $10.00
Moored To The Mast: History of Lighter Than Air at Lakehurst
By Thomas M. Williams, $15.00
100 Memorable Moments
By Lynn Olsen $8.00
Place Names of Ocean County 1609-1849
By Vivian Zinkin
Soft Cover $8.00 Hard Cover $11.00
Prisoner Exchange
By Bill Lauer $6.00
The Soper Family
By Elizabeth Ann Grant $12.00
Tides of Times
By Ocean County Elementary Principals Association, 1938
(Reprint 1988) $15.00
Christmas Ornaments
OCHS has a selection of dated Christmas ornaments for sale.
Call the Museum for a list of available ornaments and prices.
Books By Other Publishers
A-Cats—A Century of Tradition
By Gary Jobson & Roy Wilkins $50.00
Beach Bum's Guide to the Jersey Shoreline
By Beach Bum Press $6.00
Beach Plum Jelly
By Marilyn Schmidt $6.00
Best of Blueberries
By Marilyn Schmidt $7.00
Blackman Revised
By June Methot $20.00
Century of Art, A
By Pauline S. Miller and Marilyn R. Kralik $15.00
Churches and Graveyards of the New Jersey Pine Barrens
By R. Marilyn Schmidt $12.00
Cranberry Cookery
By Marilyn Schmidt $8.00
Double Trouble
By Pauline S. Miller $2.00
Down The Jersey Shore
By Russell Roberts and Rich Youmans $15.00
Down Barnegat Bay
By Robert Jahn $40.00
Early Manchester and William Torrey
By William S. Dewey $5.00
Eighteen Miles of History on Long Beach Island
By John Bailey Lloyd (New 1994 Edition) $38.00
Exploring the Pine Barrens of New Jersey—A Guide
By Marilyn Schmidt $15.00
Companion Map to Guide $6.00
Golden Light: The 1878 Diary of Captain T. R. Lake
By James B. Kirk, II--$26.00
Great Jersey Shore Jaunts
By Kelley Ann McGee $12.00
Great Storms of the Jersey Shore
By Larry Savadove and Margaret Buchholz
Soft Cover $25.00 Hard Cover $42.00
Great Sedges
By Pauline Miller $15.00
Guarding New Jersey's Shore—Lighthouses and Life-Saving Stations
By David Veasey $19.00
A Guide to New Jersey Lighthouses
By Marilyn Schmidt $5.00
Index to People and Events in The Civil War 1861-1867
From Ocean Emblem and New Jersey Courier
By Larry Barnes $12.00
Indians of Lenapehoking (The Lenape or Delaware Indians)
By Herbert C. Kraft and John T. Kraft $6.00
Island Album—Photographs & Memories—Long Beach Island
By Margaret Thomas Buchholz $48.00
The Jersey Devil's Favorite Blueberry Recipes and Folklore
By Lee Gant-Thorn $10.00
The Jersey Devil's Favorite Cranberry Recipes and Folklore
By Lee Gant-Thorn $9.00
Lakewood (Images of America)
By Scott M. Kozelnik $19.00
Legends of Island Beach
By David J. Seibold and Charles J. Adams $8.00
The Lenape—Delaware Indian Heritage 10,000 to AD 2000
By Herbert C. Kraft
Soft Cover $40.00 Hard Cover $50.00
A Life of Service: William Augustus Newell
By Lloyd R. Applegate $12.00
Lila W. Thompson, A Woman For All Seasons
By Donald C. Thompson Soft Cover $20.00
Lovelandtown
By Pauline Miller $5.00
New Jersey in History—Fighting to be Heard
By Thomas P. Farner $26.00
New Jersey's Coastal Heritage
By Mark Dilonno $16.00
Ocean County—Four Centuries in the Making
By Pauline S. Miller $25.00
Old Historic Churches of New Jersey, Volume 1
By Ellis L. Derry $20.00
Old Historic Churches of New Jersey, Volume 2
By Ellis L. Derry $20.00
150 Year History of the Sheriff's Department 1850-2000
By Jeff Thompson and Betty Grant $15.00
People of Ocean County: A History of Ocean County
By David D. Oxenford $13.00
Point Pleasant (Images of America), Volume I
By Jerry Woolley $17.00
Point Pleasant (Images of America), Volume II
By Jerry Woolley $17.00
Pound Fishing - Bay Head To South Seaside Park, NJ
By Ferd Klebold $40.00
Sentinels of The Shore (Lighthouses and Lightships of N.J.)
By Bill Gateley $13.00
New Jersey Shipwrecks—350 Years in the Graveyard of the Atlantic
By Margaret Buchholz $44.00
Shipwrecks Near Barnegat Inlet
By David Seibold and Charles J. Adams $8.00
Shore Chronicles
By Margaret Buchholz
Soft Cover $17.00 Hard Cover $27.00
Six Miles at Sea—Long Beach Island
By John Lloyd Bailey
Soft Cover $19.00 Hard Cover $32.00
Sky Ships
By William Althoff
Soft Cover $25.00
Stafford Chronicles $36.00
Toms River was in Flames—The Toms River Blockhouse Fight
By Nick Rakoncza $15.00
Towns Lost
By Marilyn Schmidt $15.00
The United States Life-Saving in Ocean County
Material from Annual Reports 1876-1914 $50.00
Up and Down The Beach
By June Methot $27.50
USS Los Angeles
By William F. Althoff
Hard Cover $45.00
When The Monarchs Fly
By Robert Meyers $12.00
Wildflowers of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey
By Howard P. Boyd $20.00
Historical Maps
A Sampling of
Historical Maps
(Call For Prices)
Ocean County
1872—Beers & Comstock
New Jersey
1616—Hendricks
1812—William Giberson
1913—NJ Railroads
Communities
From Woolman & Rose Atlas—1878
Barnegat Lavallette
Bayville Manahawkin
Bricksburg Toms River
Cedar Creek Tuckerton
& Good Luck Waretown
Forked River West Creek
Coastal Surveys
From Sandy Hook to Cape May
Maps
From 1616 to 1920…With political division of the new (1850) Ocean County. Depicting the changing coast, inlets, and islands. Locating roads and railroads, creeks and bogs, bays and islands. Showing residents of 1870's Barnegat Bay.
Media
Video Cassettes
The Hindenburg Disaster Recalled $10.00
Ocean County $10.00
DVD
Toms River Block House Fight $20.00
Audio Tape
Tour of Southern Ocean County $5.00
Wood Work
Painted Wood Work
Toms River Block House $15.00