Commodore Truxton House

We are striving to identify a strategy that will save this endangered c.1760 farmhouse that we call the Commodore Truxtun/ Bispham/ Walton House from demolition and development. It is currently owned by Virtua who purchased the property about a decade ago. Their intention at that time was to build their cancer center there. Their plan changed when the former ACME on Young Avenue became available and they chose to build the Virtua Samson Cancer Center at that location. So, in a way, The Cancer Center temporarily saved this house that Commodore Thomas Truxtun lived in from 1812-1816. Virtua now desires to sell the property. Learn more here.

The Commodore and his wife Mary owned the house until 1820 and may have commuted from Philadelphia, where he was elected sheriff, or perhaps Mary stayed on in Moorestown with their very large family (nine children still at home!) According to author Eugene S. Ferguson in his enthralling 1956 biography Truxtun of the Constellation Mary loved Moorestown! This “Witness House” and farm remnant of 4 acres was once a bustling farm of 200 acres. We are thrilled to still have this structure standing and want to honor its history by preserving and rehabilitating it to its former glory. By sheer dumb luck it has been standing since the American Revolution and we must preserve it because there are far too few examples left for future generations to enjoy and learn from. The last family to farm the property was the Waltons. Silas Walton was an inventor who hybridized a popular strawberry! See the advertisement below.

Please watch our video about Thomas Truxtun, a Revolutionary War hero. We hope it will inspire you to help us find funding; and, or a buyer who will honor our history and save his home from development and destruction. A portion of proceeds from merchandise available at Moorestown250.com will be shared with Saving Historic Moorestown to help fund our mission!