A dugout of oak was discovered near the settlement and in 1877 half of it was recovered and placed in the Musée d'histoire et d'art in Geneva.

[5] North-east of Grande-Cité is the third lake settlement, Les Roseaux, which comes from the Early Bronze Age.

It is a rich site for artifacts including numerous edge strips for bronze axes and cups made of fine ceramics (of the Roseaux type).

The arrangement of the stilts show the organization of the huts, which were oriented at right angles to the modern shore.

[5] The Bronze Age settlements were abandoned and the region was sparsely inhabited until the Gallo-Roman era when a villa and farms were built.

It quickly developed into an administrative and market center as well as a hub for transporting goods by land and sea.

[6] During the Middle Ages, Morges was a seasonal residence of the court of Savoy and the seat of a bailiff.

The city was ruled as a single fief, and the residents were taxed according to their frontage or the width of their property along the street.

Due to the shape of the streets and the frontage tax, most of the plots are long and narrow.

Most of the houses have courtyards for light and ventilation and some are also equipped with spiral staircases and arbors.

The most significant of the inns was the Auberge de la Croix Blanche at Grande-Rue 70-72 which was given a late Gothic facade around 1550.

The stair tower and monumental portal were built in 1682, while the facade was done in a late Gothic style.

In 1574 the Collège de Couvaloup, which was inspired by the academies of Geneva, Lausanne and Bern, opened in Morges.

The new church was built in a French classicism style between 1769–76 and is one of the masterpieces of Reformed architecture in Switzerland.

A small harbor is first mentioned in 1536 and shortly thereafter, regular boat service to Geneva began.

In 1664 a simple pier was built out of poles, but it was too small to provide protection for the galleys that were on the lake.

The Bernese government therefore decided to build a commercial and military port in Morges and not in Lausanne-Ouchy.

[7] During the early modern era, the local economy began to rely more on transportation and trade than on the production of goods.

The largest socio-professional groups at the end of the Ancien Régime in 1798 were; (in order of importance) the rentiers or landlords, merchants, winemakers, farmers, shoemakers, tailors, carpenters and joiners.

[8] Morges grew into a regional economic, political and cultural center during the ancien régime.

With the cultural development, it became a center for patriots (including Jean-Jacques Cart, Henri Monod and Jules Nicholas Muret) and the Vaudois revolution.

In the port, the shipyard was located near the shipping company Compagnie générale de navigation sur le lac Léman (1858–89).

[8] In September 2020, a man released from prison July and who had been under investigation for "previous jihadist activity," chose a victim at random in Morges and killed him "to avenge the prophet.

Of the rest of the land, 2.83 km2 (1.09 sq mi) or 73.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.04 km2 (9.9 acres) or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Argent and Gules, two Bars wavy counterchanged.

[16] The historical population is given in the following chart:[4][20] It is home to the Les Roseaux and Stations de Morges prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.

[21] The De La Croix Blanche Inn, the buildings at Grand-Rue 54 and Grand-Rue 94, Morges Castle along with the Military Museum of Vaud, the City Hall, the Bronze Age shore front settlement Les Roseaux/La Grande Cité and the Temple are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

[22] Morges is twinned with: In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SP which received 27.87% of the vote.

In the tertiary sector; 1,597 or 27.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 227 or 3.8% were in the movement and storage of goods, 502 or 8.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 236 or 4.0% were in the information industry, 328 or 5.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 474 or 8.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 556 or 9.4% were in education and 1,286 or 21.7% were in health care.

In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.