Casaloma Tavern
Known Name(s)
Casaloma Tavern
Address
Manitan Park Toms River, NJ
Establishment Type(s)
Tavern
Physical Status
Demolished
Detailed History
Manitou (misspelled as Manitan in the Green Book) Park was settled in the 1890s as a segregated Black community. Its schoolhouse, dating to 1929, has received NJ Historic Trust funds to support its nomination to the National Register and some emergency repairs to the vernacular one-room building. The Casaloma Tavern appears regularly in local newspapers with accounts of stabbing (1952); murders (2 in 1953 and one in 1971); drunk and disorderly conduct and carrying a loaded gun ( July, 1966) - in short, it sounds like it was a tough place. In August 1966, it was offered for sale. It appears to have been demolished as there is no tavern-like building on Fifth Street, its location as reported in a newspaper article in 1966. (See Asbury Park Press, May 23, 1953, p. 21; June 12, 1953, p. 31; May 10, 1971, p. 15; Dec 26, 1952 and Aug 8, 1966).
