Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Beachwood, NJ

Beachwood is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, in the Jersey Shore region, with a community waterfront along the Toms River.

Beachwood began with a 1914 plan backed by the publishers of the New-York Tribune, under which 1,763 acres of Berkeley Township were purchased and sectioned off as a summer colony called "Beachwood."

In the original 1914 development promoted by Bertram Chapman Mayo, buyers paid $19.60 for a plot of land measuring 20 by 100 feet and received a six-month subscription to the New-York Tribune as a bonus.

The first residents of the Beachwood colony moved in during April 1915, and the first cottages were built during that first summer season.

Beachwood was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 22, 1917, from portions of Berkeley Township, after a referendum approving the borough passed on April 12, 1917, and Joseph H. Senior was chosen as its first mayor.

The 1920 census counted just 20 residents in the new borough, but by the 2020 census Beachwood's population had grown to 10,859.

The 2020 census counted 3,719 households in Beachwood, spread across the borough's 2.76 square miles.

Beachwood Beach, on Compass Avenue, is the borough's riverfront beach on the Toms River, and nearby Mayo Park commemorates developer Bertram C. Mayo, the mastermind of the original colony.

Jakes Branch County Park, a 400-acre Ocean County park at 1100 Double Trouble Road, is billed as the "Gateway to the Pines" and features a nature center introducing visitors to Pine Barrens ecology.

The stream that gives Jakes Branch County Park its name was originally called Jacob's Branch, after Jacob Jacobs, who built a sawmill on the Toms River tributary in 1761.