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View of the Morven Museum and Garden in Princeton, New Jersey, March 8, 2023. The mansion was built by Richard Stockton – one New Jersey’s five delegates appointed to the Continental Congress and signor of the Declaration of Independence – in the 1754 and was rebuilt after a fire in 1758. Stockton’s wife, Annis Boudinot Stockton, named it Morven, meaning big hill in Gaelic. During the American Revolutionary War, Stockton was taken prisoner by the British at Morven. Four generations of Stocktons resided at Morven – including two U.S. Senators, a Commodore of the Pacific Fleet, and a Union Cavalry lieutenant – before the property was leased to Robert Wood Johnson Jr., Chairman of Johnson & Johnson, from 1928 to 1944. From 1945 to 1982, Morven served as New Jersey’s first governor’s mansion. After several restorations, Morven was opened in 2004 as a museum and garden. It is the only original house of a signer of the Declaration of Independence that is open to the public. (New Jersey National Guard photo by Mark C. Olsen)
| Date Taken: | 03.08.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 03.09.2023 14:39 |
| Photo ID: | 7673122 |
| VIRIN: | 230308-Z-AL508-2001 |
| Resolution: | 5472x3648 |
| Size: | 5.58 MB |
| Location: | PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, US |
| Web Views: | 16 |
| Downloads: | 3 |
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