Look for a grand white brick house with black shutters, a side-gable roof, and a stone retaining wall at the front-right behind the bushes just up the steps.
Welcome to the Daniel Morgan House! As you stand here, imagine the clatter of boots and horses along this very street in the late 1700s. This stately home started with George Flowerdew Norton in 1786, but it’s General Daniel Morgan-the tough, legendary hero of the American Revolution-who really makes this place famous. Morgan made this house his own around 1800, adding a whole new wing; picture him with muddy boots, sword at his side, maybe even tracking in a bit of battlefield dirt! With its seven bays and seventeen rooms, it was almost big enough for his heroic stories. Morgan spent his last days right here-he actually died in this very house in 1802, surrounded by family and, I’d like to think, some pretty fantastic stories. As the house passed on to his daughter, it kept growing-there’s a kitchen from 1820, new sections added in 1885, 1890, and even a little upstairs room built in 1915! Outside, the stone wall beside you has silently watched over two centuries of laughter, love, and probably quite a few noisy dinner parties. Today, you’re standing in a piece of living history that was honored on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013-so don’t worry, nobody’s going to ask you to fight the British, but you might want to snap a photo just in case!
