History
Built about 1876 by order of the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders, this house provided temporary refuge for homeless wanderers during the post-Civil War depression years. The structure originally stood on land now in the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and formerly part of the farm of Joseph Hilbert, overseer of the poor for Passaic Township, before being moved to this site in 1988.
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New Vernon, New Jersey · United States
