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Upcoming Events

Four Centuries in a Weekend 2025

Saturday, October 18, 2025

12:00 PM

4:00 PM

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Union County's annual open house event. The Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum will host a Cider Pressing demonstration on Saturday, and a Hearth Cooking demonstration on Sunday. Join us in sampling a taste of history! Tours of the building will be available from noon to 4pm.


Free Admission

Cider Pressing

Four Centuries in a Weekend 2025

Sunday, October 19, 2025

12:00 PM

4:00 PM

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Union County's annual open house event. The Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum will host a Cider Pressing demonstration on Saturday, and a Hearth Cooking demonstration on Sunday. Join us in sampling a taste of history! Tours of the building will be available from noon to 4pm.


Free Admission

Hearth Cooking

Spirits of Rahway Lantern Lit Cemetery Tours

Friday, October 24, 2025

7:00 PM

9:30 PM

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This nighttime tour will showcase the sinister side of Rahway's history. Guests will be escorted through the cemetery by their "Spirit Guide," who will relay thirteen tru stories of murder, tragic deaths, and the unexplained goings on within the cemetery's gates.


$30 per ticket, shows at 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 8:30pm, and 9pm. 


Reservations available soon - mark your calendars now, and watch our socials for updates!

Lantern Lit Tours

Spirits of Rahway Lantern Lit Cemetery Tours

Saturday, October 25, 2025

7:00 PM

9:30 PM

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This nighttime tour will showcase the sinister side of Rahway's history. Guests will be escorted through the cemetery by their "Spirit Guide," who will relay thirteen tru stories of murder, tragic deaths, and the unexplained goings on within the cemetery's gates.


$30 per ticket, shows at 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 8:30pm, and 9pm. 


Reservations available soon - mark your calendars now, and watch our socials for updates!

Lantern Lit Tours

Holiday Bazaar

Saturday, December 6, 2025

9:00 AM

2:00 PM

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Find yourself a vintage holiday treasure! This holiday-themed shopping bazaar will feature a selection of new and vintage holiday decorations for sale. All proceeds benefit the Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum!

More info coming soon!

Holiday Candlelight Evening

Saturday, December 13, 2025

7:00 PM

10:00 PM

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Guests are invited to step back in time for an enchanting candle-lit night of holiday merriment with live music.  The taproom will be open and beer, wine and warm old-fashioned Swedish Glogg will be available for guests 21 and over. Light refreshments will be served.


$30 for General, $25 for members

Holiday Candlelight Evening 2025
More info coming soon!

Funding is made possible in part by the following: 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 HEART Grant Program; New Jersey Council for the Humanities; RSI Bank Foundation of the Community Foundation of New Jersey; a Rahway Chamber of Commerce Business Improvement Grant; and numerous individual donors. Restoration of the historic Merchants and Drovers Tavern structure is currently funded by capital grants from the New Jersey Historic Trust, New Jersey Cultural Trust, and Union County.

Phone

Email

732-381-0441

Street Address

1632 St. Georges Ave, Rahway NJ 07065

Mailing Address

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PO Box 1842, Rahway, NJ 07065

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