Staff at the Liberty Hall Museum, located at Kean University in Union, were working on a six-month restoration project of its wine cellar when they found almost three cases of Madeira wine from 1796 and about 42 demijohns from the 1820s, NJ.com reported.
Some of the Madeira wines were shipped to the early residents of Liberty Hall — which had once been home to the prominent Livingston and Kean families — in anticipation of John Adams’ presidency, according to the report.
The monetary value of the Madeira cannot be made public — but it is the largest that has been discovered in the U.S. — and one of the most extensive in the world, NJ.comreported.