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Museum Hours by appointment only today

Posted on April 16, 2022 by
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April 16, 2022 all-day America/New York Timezone
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Please contact us at 732-381-0441 to make an appointment

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    The Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum is supported in part by funding from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State, through a grant administered by the Union County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Department of Parks & Recreation; the Union County Board of County Commissioners 2022 HEART Grant Program; a New Jersey Council for the Humanities Incubation Grant; RSI Bank; and numerous individual donors. The museum has been supported in 2020-2022 by pandemic-relief funding from the New Jersey Arts & Culture Recovery Fund; the New Jersey Economic Development Authority; Union County COVID-19 Relief; New Jersey Historical Commission; The City of Rahway COVID and Ida Relief; and grants from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the federal CARES Act and through the American Rescue Plan Act. (Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this event/publication do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.) Phase III of the restoration of the historic Merchants and Drovers Tavern is being funded by capital grants from the New Jersey Historic Trust and Union County.
  • NJ Humanities LogoThe Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum Association is supported by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the federal CARES Act. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this association do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

The MDTMA is dedicated to preserving the Merchants and Drovers Tavern (c. 1795/1820), the Terrill Tavern (c. 1735), developing the site as a tavern museum and to interpreting the important role played by taverns in early American history; to provide a regional educational, cultural and historic resource; and to preserve local history.