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Welcome!                                           

     Welcome to the official website of the Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum, one of New Jersey’s premier 19^th century taverns and hotels, restored today to its 1820’s appearance. The Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum is a new museum of early tavern life and stagecoach transportation, opened to the public in June 2001. The Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum is a recipient of a General Operating Support Grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a Division of the Department of State.

                                   Mission, Location, and Contact Info

     The Merchants & Drovers Tavern Museum Association is dedicated to preserving the Merchants and Drovers Tavern (1795/1820) and to interpreting early tavern life. The tavern, located at the corner of St. Georges Avenue (Route 27) and Westfield Avenue, is recorded in the Historic American Buildings Survey and listed in the National and New Jersey Registers of Historic Places. The Association also own and operates the Abraham Terrill Tavern as the Museum Gift Shop.

                                                                     Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1842, Rahway, NJ

                                                                     E- Mail:  mailto:mdtavernmuseum@aol.com

                                                                     Website URL: http://www.merchantsanddrovers.org