[4] The precise origin of the name is uncertain, although it likely was borrowed from one or more of several features in Scotland, as "Morven" has a lengthy and varied history of use as a place-name in other areas settled by Scots, especially in Virginia.

[10] The name was well-established at the turn of the 20th century,[11] and the Morven post office appeared in gazetteers at least as late as the 1920s[12] – although apparently it had closed before then,[1] one of the thousands of small "fourth class" facilities that were shut down in the early 1900s after the advent of rural free delivery.

On April 5, 1865, during the final days of the Civil War, as General Robert E. Lee and his exhausted, hungry, and depleted Army of Northern Virginia continued their westward retreat, Union cavalry intercepted and destroyed a Confederate wagon train that had just traveled through Morven.

[14] The wagons, carrying desperately needed supplies sent from Richmond for the Rebels, had been delayed because wet weather had rendered the Appomattox uncrossable at the Genito bridge, forcing the caravan to take a longer route to the north and cross the river at Clement Town.

During the early 20th century, the Rosenwald project was a collaborative effort that constructed thousands of facilities across the South primarily to improve the education of African American children.