Fosterfields Living Historical Farm

Name: Fosterfields Living Historical Farm
Start: 2024-11-09T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
Location: Fosterfields Living Historical Farm

Schedule

Sat Nov 09 2024 at 07:00 pm to Sun Nov 10 2024 at 12:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

Fosterfields Living Historical Farm | Morristown, NJ

Come investigate Fosterfields, also known as Fosterfields Living Historical Farm, a 213.4-acre farm and open-air museum at the junction of Mendham and Kahdena Roads in Morris Township, New Jersey. The oldest structure on the farm, the Ogden House, was built in 1774. Listed as the Joseph W. Revere House, Fosterfields was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1973, for its significance in art, architecture, literature, and military history. The museum portrays farm life circa 1920.
United States Navy officer, adventurer and author Joseph Warren Revere, a grandson of Paul Revere, was a significant owner of the property During Revere's ownership he designed and built an 1854 Carpenter-Gothic mansion titled "The Willows."
In 1881 Charles Grant Foster, a New York commodities broker, purchased the property and developed it into a Jersey cattle farm entitled "Fosterfields." His daughter, Caroline Rose Foster, spent 98 years living and working on the property, enjoying carpentry, fishing, and civic engagement during the Gilded Age of Morristown.
While writing her will in 1974, Caroline Foster arranged to bequeath the land to the Morris County Park Commission following her death, with the intent of making the property an educational farm. Upon Foster's death in 1979, the Park Commission received the farm. The boundary was increased on October 9, 1991. It was listed as a contributing property of the Washington Valley Historic District on November 12, 1992.