Morristown National Historical Park

Tour Washington's headquarters at the Ford Mansion and walk the soldier hut sites of the 1779-80 winter encampment.

30 Washington Pl · Morristown, NJ

About Morristown National Historical Park

Morristown National Historical Park preserves the places where George Washington and the Continental Army spent the winter of 1779 to 1780, the coldest on record for New Jersey. You can tour the Ford Mansion, which served as Washington's headquarters, and see the exhibits in the museum beside it. Jockey Hollow has trails and replica soldier huts on the encampment grounds, and Fort Nonsense offers a view toward New York City. Established in 1933, it was the country's first national historical park.

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The closest stops to Morristown National Historical Park, ordered by straight-line distance. A few more like it, plus some different kinds of fun so you can build a full day.

Museums
Washington's Headquarters Museum
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A National Park Service museum within Morristown National Historical Park, focused on the army's winter camp of 1779-1780.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Museums
Acorn Hall
Under $25
An 1853 Victorian Italianate mansion in Morristown that serves as the Morris County Historical Society's headquarters and a historic house museum.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Museums
Macculloch Hall Historical Museum
Under $25
Historic house museum in Morristown with decorative and fine art, a large Thomas Nast cartoon collection, and free gardens.
0.8 mi awaySwitch it up: Museums
Sightseeing
Kip's Castle Park
No admission fee
A 9,000 square foot mansion styled after a medieval Norman castle, set on an eleven-acre ridge park.
Transit: reachable by public transit
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Sightseeing
42 Aberdeen Road
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A 1950 house in Elizabeth, New Jersey, that served as an early Dianetics office, now preserved as a Hubbard landmark site.
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Hageman Farm House
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A Dutch-heritage farmstead in central New Jersey with an 1861 Italianate-Victorian farmhouse and barns built in the mid-1870s.
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