 See Historic Sites sorted by town The following information is subject to change. Please call ahead to confirm. Alphabetical Listing: | | | | | | | | | | A  Acorn Hall...
is theheadquarters of the Morris County Historical Society, was built as a private residence in 1853 and expanded and remodeled in 1860 in the fashionable Italianate Villa style, complete with an unusual octagonal tower. The house, now a museum, is decorated largely with original furnishings, carpeting and wall coverings from the two families who lived there between 1853 and 1971. The museum’s exhibit gallery hosts special exhibits on local history or nineteenth century life; these change throughout the year. Acorn Hall also boasts a fine garden and an appealing gift shop. Guided tours of the house are offered and include exhibits. Acorn Hall is also part of the Women’s History Trail.
Hours of Operation: Monday and Thursday: 10 – 4
Sunday: 1 – 4
Group tours by appointment
Location: 68 Morris Avenue, Morristown
Telephone: 973-267-3465
www.acornhall.org
B Boonton Historical Society & Museum...
located in the 1868 Dr. John Taylor House, was founded to preserve and display Boonton’s history. The museum has permanent and changing exhibits about the history, arts, and people of Boonton as well as a gift shop. The society also provides walking tours and evening programs.
Hours of Operation: Saturday: 1 – 4
Location: 210 Main Street, Boonton
Telephone: 973-402-8840
www.boonton.org
Butler Museum..
established in 1976, is located in the historic 1889 NYS&W Railroad Station. Among the collections are military items and uniforms, American Hard Rubber Industry artifacts, Butler HS yearbooks from 1918, old newspapers on microfilm, a major postcard collection and Statue of Liberty artifacts. Handicapped Accessible.
Hours of Operation: Saturday: 10 – 2, Call for Special Appointments.
Location: New York Susquehanna & Western Railroad Station, Upper Main Street, Butler
Mailing Address: One Ace Road, Butler, NJ
Telephone: 973-838-7222
www.butlermuseumnj.org
C Community Children’s Museum...
is a hands on museum for children featuring a full size replica of van Gogh’s bedroom painting where you can sit on his bed and touch the textured walls and an Art Studio to create works in clay. Learn about electricity without the shock and be an astronaut in John Glenn’s space capsule or be an actor in the theater. Explore three different countries in the Homes Around the World exhibit. Great for birthday parties.
Entrance Fee: $5 for 6 months and older.
Hours of Operation: Thursday – Saturday: 10 – 5; Sunday
12 - 5 Groups and birthday parties by appointment any time
Location: 77 E. Blackwell St., Dover
Telephone: 973-366-9060
www.communitychildrensmuseum.org
Cooper Mill
Originally built by Nathan Cooper in 1826, the Mill and adjacent visitors center has been carefully restored to provide visitors with an opportunity to rediscover the roots and heritage of the region, while witnessing the amazing power of the Black River, harnessed to grind grain into flour by massive 2,000-pound millstones.
Hours of Operation: July – August
Wednesday – Friday: 10-3:45
Saturday: 10 – 4:45
Sunday: 12 – 4:45
May – June, September – October:
Saturday, 10 – 3:45
Sunday, 12 – 3:45
Location: 66 Route 24, Chester
Telephone: 908-879-5463
www.morrisparks.net D Denville Historical Society & Museum
This museum includes local history of the town and surrounding areas. Changing exhibits.
Hours of Operation: Saturday 10 – 4
closed mid Janurary – mid March and
mid August – mid September.
Location: 113 Diamond Spring Rd., Denville
Telephone: 973-625-1165
www.denvillenj.org/hist_society.html F Fosterfields Living Historical Farm
This is where the spirit of life at the turn of the 20th century is evoked through weekly activities presented on the farm, Farmhouse and The Willows. Staff dressed in appropriate period attire interprets the lives and roles of farm laborers, domestic workers, Foster family members and friends. They perform a daily regimen of farming, and domestic chores. They also raise livestock and crops by historical methods.
Hours of Operation: April – October
Wednesday – Saturday: 10 – 5
Sunday 12–5
Location: 73 Kahdena Road, Morristown
Telephone: 973-326-7645
www.morrisparks.net The Frelinghuysen Arboretum
The 127-acre grounds of the Arboretum feature a number of stunning theme gardens, including shade, cottage, perennial, rock and vegetable gardens, as well as specialized collections of shrubs and trees. In addition, visitors can stop in at the Haggerty Education Center, which hosts a number of shows and events and art exhibits & a year-round calendar of programs for gardeners of all ages and skill levels, the Carriage House, and the charming Cottage Gift Shop.
Hours of Operation:Grounds:
Monday through Sunday 8 – dusk
Education Center: Monday through Sunday 9–4:30
Location: 53 East Hanover Avenue, Morristown
Telephone: 973-326-7600
www.arboretumfriends.org www.morrisparks.net
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Historic Speedwell...
brings the birth of the American Industrial Revolution to vivid life. This National Historic Landmark site is comprised of eight historic structures. Among these are the home of Stephen Vail, proprietor of the Speedwell Ironworks, restored to the period of 1844-1864, and the Factory Building where Samuel F.B. Morse and Alfred Vail first publicly displayed the telegraph. Exhibits illustrate the history of the Ironworks and Stephen Vail's connection to the S.S. Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, and a museum store.
Hours of Operation: April – October,
Wednesday – Saturday 10 – 5
Sunday 12–5 333
Location: 333 Speedwell Avenue, Morristown
Telephone: 973-540-0211
www.morrisparks.net
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Lake Hopatcong Historical Museum
Located in a rustic 19th century building which served as a lock tender’s house on the Morris Canal, the museum offers an entertaining and enlightening look at the history of New Jersey's largest lake.
Hours of Operation: Call for hours
Location: Hopatcong State Park, Lakeside Boulevard, Landing
Telephone: 973-398-2616
www.hopatcong.org/museum
Ledgewood Historic Park Museums...
bordering the Morris Canal planes 2 and 3 east, the Park includes the stuccoed stone King General Store, circa 1815, a “signature building” of the Morris Canal Greenway and the King Homestead. The Homestead, an 1881 vernacular, Queen Anne style frame house, undergoing renovation, offers changing exhibits and has a four wall dining room, pastoral mural, dating from 1936. Both structures are listed in the National and State Registers of Historic Sites.
Hours of Operation: 2nd Sunday of each month, 1 – 4pm.
Closed in January
Location: 209 Main Street, Ledgewood
Telephone: 973-927-7603
www.roxburynewjersey.com
The Little Red Schoolhouse Museum
This museum houses the Historical Society of Florham Park formed in 1936 to save the schoolhouse from demolition. The museum focuses on the history of Florham Park from a farming village to the present.
Hours of Operation: April – June
September – December on the 1st
Sunday of the month, 2-4 Also by appointment
Location: Ridgedale Avenue & Columbia Turnpike., PO Box 193, Florham Park
Telephone: 973-377-3713
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Macculloch Hall and Gardens
A 20-room Federal-style mansion was built in 1810 by George Macculloch, known as the Father of the Morris Canal. Ten period rooms display 18th and 19th century furnishings, while four galleries offer changing exhibits year-round. There is also an impressive collection of prints and drawings by Thomas Nast, the famous political cartoonist who had once been a neighbor of Macculloch Hall.
Hours of Operation: Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday
1 - 4
Location: 45 Macculloch Avenue, Morristown
Telephone: 973-538-2404
www.maccullochhall.org
Mead Hall...
completed in 1836, Mead Hall has been called the finest example of Greek revival architecture north of the Mason–Dixon Line. It was owned for several years by William Gibbons, and then sold to Daniel Drew in 1867. The building became the center of the Drew Theological Seminary in the same year and was renamed for Roxanna Mead, Drew’s wife. Having served as the seminary’s home until 1900, Mead Hall currently houses small classrooms and the offices of Drew University administrators including the president and provost. Guided tours for small groups can be arranged as the building’s availability permits.
Hours of Operation: Tours available by appointment only
Location: Campus of Drew University, Route 24, Madison
Telephone: 973 408-3646 or 973-408-3201
Montville Museum...
was originally constructed in 1867 as a one-room school and later in the 1890s as a gathering place for the local temperance league, then Post Office. Exhibits reflect the history of the Montville area as well as the Morris Canal.
Hours of Operation: Sunday 1 – 4
Closed July and August
Location: 6 Taylortown Road Taylortown Road, Montville
Telephone: 973-334-3665
Morris Museum..
which includes the gracious Georgian-style Frelinghuysen Mansion, designed by Stanford White, features galleries for both permanent and changing exhibitions which explore the arts, sciences and humanities. Among the Museum's permanent collections are fine and decorative arts, costumes and textiles, dolls and toys and the new Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of music boxes, automatic musical instruments and mechanically activated figures dating from the late 16th century to the early 20th century.
Hours of Operation: Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 5
Sunday 1 – 5
Thursday 10 – 8
Location: 6 Normandy Heights Road, Morristown
Telephone: 973-971-3700
www.morrismuseum.org
The Morris Plains Museum...
preserves Morris Plains’ history by keeping a collection of artifacts, records and documents. The museum features permanent and changing exhibits. (Sat 10-2) 51 Jim Fear Drive, P.O. Box 231, Morris Plains 973-683-1089
Hours of Operation: Saturday 10 – 2
Location: 51 Jim Fear Drive, Morris Plains
Telephone: 973-683-1089
Morristown National Historical Park
Established in 1933 as the nation's first "National Historical Park," consists of four non-contiguous units, Jockey Hollow, Fort Nonsense, The New Jersey Brigade and The Ford Mansion that served as George Washington's military headquarters during his troops' harsh winter encampments in Morristown.
Hours of Operation: Daily 9 – 5
Location: Washington Place, Morristown
Telephone: 973-539-2016
www.nps.gov/morr
Mt. Hope Historical Park
Known as one of the earliest mining areas in Colonial America. Features include guided nature hikes, hiking trails, self-guided tours and interpretive/nature trails. Remains of mining still exist in the southwestern section of the park.
Hours of Operation: Daily 8–dusk
Location: Teabo Road, Rockaway
Telephone: 973-829-8666
www.morrisparks.net
Museum of Early Trades & Crafts
explores 18th and 19th century American history, with a focus on New Jersey. Housed in the beautiful 1900 James Library and drawing on its collection of over 8,000 artifacts, METC offers something for visitors of all ages including a Museum Shop.
Hours of Operation: Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 4
Sunday 12 – 5
Location: 9 Main Street, Madison
Telephone: 973-377-2982 extension:10
www.metc.org
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Obadiah LaTourette Grist and Saw Mill
Obadiah LaTourette Grist and Saw Mill, Built in 1750 by Philip Weise, the mill is currently being restored by the Washington Township Land Trust.
Hours of Operation: Most Saturdays 10 – 2
or by appointment.
Location:12 East Mill Road (Rt. 513), Long Valley
Telephone: 908-876-4478 or 908-876-5986
www.wtlt.org
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Schuyler-Hamilton House
This colonial home of Dr. Jabez Campfield, was used by General Washington's personal physician, Dr. John Cochrane. Washington’s aide, Colonel Alexander Hamilton courted house guest Betsy Schuyler here. The home is now owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Hours of Operation: Sunday 2 -4
Location: 5 Olyphant Place, Morristown
Telephone: 973-539-7502
www.rootsweb.com/~njmcdar
The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms
Craftsman Farms is the only house Gustav Stickley, the foremost spokesman for the American Arts and Crafts Movement, designed and built for himself. Stickley, known for his Mission furniture, revolutionized American decorative arts.
Hours of Operation: April – November 15th
Wednesday – Friday 12 – 3
Saturday – Sunday 11 – 4
Location: 2352 Rt. 10 West at Manor Lane, Morris Plains
Telephone: 973-540-1165
www.stickleymuseum.org
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Washington Township Historical Society Museum/Old Union Church
Ruins and Cemetery...
Was originally constructed in 1830 as a schoolhouse. Later it was transformed into a library and then in 1981, to a museum. The museum preserves the history of Washington Township & includes exhibits, a genealogy library, photographs, and displays of local artifacts and farm tools. Next to the museum are the ruins of the Old Union Stone Church, built in 1774, and cemetery.
Hours of Location: Sunday 2 – 4, also by appointment
Locaton: 6 Fairview Avenue, Long Valley
Telephone: 908-876-9696
www.wtlt.org
Whippany Railway Museum
Contains exhibits related to railroad memorabilia and features full-size historical railroad equipment and rolling stock.
Hours of Operation: April–October, Sunday 12 – 4
Location: Rt. 10 W & Whippany Rd., Whippany
Telephone: 973-887-8177
www.whippanyrailwaymuseum.net
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