57 Wickapecko Drive, Wanamassa, NJ
Drummond Homestead/Asbury Park Woman's Club
One of the first landowners in the Township of Ocean was Scotsman Gawen (Gavin) Drummond, who purchased 500 acres within the branches of "Great Pond" (Deal Lake) in 1687. The land embraced what is now West Allenhurst, Wanamassa, Interlaken, and Colonial Terrace. Drummond purchased the land for "one gun, five matchcoats, one kettle, and two pounds weight of powder" from three Native American chiefs named Wanamassa, Waywinotunce, and Wallammassekem. The Drummond Homestead was located along Wickapecko Drive near Darlene Avenue. The original part of the house was built about 1703 with additional rooms added as the family and resources increased. The Drummond farmhouse was destroyed by fire on Halloween in 1933.
The property was turned into the Asbury Park Woman's Club Clubhouse and the neighborhood behind it in the 1940s and 1950s.
