Morris County Historical Society

The Society preserves and promotes Morris County history by actively collecting artifacts, documents, and photographs of local historic significance. The 27,000 objects in our collection serve as the basis for rotating exhibits, programs, lectures, blogs, research requests, and loans (short-term, long-term, and permanent) to other similarly-missioned organizations throughout Morris County and nj. The Society's in person and virtual public offerings attract visitors, attendees, and engagements from across the united states. The most outwardly apparent ways the organization embodies its mission is through the active preservation, restoration, and interpretation of acorn hall (1853), its carriage house, and associated 6-acre landscape are. Since 1971, when the acorn hall property became part of the Society's collection, staff and volunteers have provided tours of the building, which is recognized as one of nj's best preserved historic house museums. As a leading Historical Society in nj, the Society serves in a leadership capacity coordinating, publicizing, and supporting events, programs, and initiatives with all of Morris County's history organizations, like preparations for the semiquincentennial. The Society also works closely with these organizations, as well as local colleges, universities, and academic researchers, in the completion of research-driven, county-wide history initiatives, like Morris County's first county-wide survey of african american history & historic sites. A member-supported non-profit, the Society remains one of the few history organizations in nj that owns its historic resources and is unsupported by any governmental entity, private foundation, or parent organization except through competitive granting processes.