Walnford Park

Upper Freehold Township
Completed in 1980, 41 acres

Joanne and Edward Mullen donated their historic milling and farm complex located on 41 acres in Upper Freehold to the Monmouth County Park System via the Monmouth Conservation Foundation. The pre-Revolutionary homestead and surrounding lands were held in trust by the Foundation while the County waited for Green Acres funds to acquire contiguous lands along Crosswicks Creek.

The “Walnford” Georgian mansion and its outbuildings provide a vivid record of early American industry carried on by Quaker Richard Waln and his descendants. The gristmill, carriage house, smokehouse, cheese house, caretaker’s house, icehouse and barn still stand today. The County restored the mansion, the mill and the outbuildings and opened them to the public in September 2000.