Morven Museum & Garden is a historic estate home originally built by Richard Stockton (1730–1781), a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The British ransacked Morven in 1776, capturing and briefly imprisoning him. Generations of Stocktons resided at Morven through the early 20th century before the property was leased to General Robert Wood Johnson, Chairman of Johnson & Johnson. He was followed by five New Jersey governors when Morven served as the state’s first Governor’s Mansion (1945–1981).

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