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Rahway (/ ˈrɔːweɪ /) is a city in southern Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A bedroom community of New York City, it is centrally located in the Rahway Valley region, in the New York metropolitan area. [18] The city is 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Manhattan and 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Staten Island.
Designated NJRHP. April 4, 1975. The Merchants and Drovers Tavern is located at 1632 Saint Georges Avenue in the city of Rahway in Union County, New Jersey, United States. The historic tavern was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 21, 1978, for its significance in architecture, commerce, and transportation. [1][3]
Rahway Township was a township in New Jersey, United States, that existed from 1804 until it was dissolved in 1861. Rahway was formed as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 27, 1804, from portions of Elizabeth Township and Westfield Township while the area was still part of Essex County, New Jersey.
The Rahway Cemetery is located along the banks of the Rahway River in Rahway, New Jersey, U.S. [1][2][3] Earlier, the land is thought to be owned by the Frazee family with the first burial in 1724 of John Frazee. This land for the cemetery was later acquired by the First Presbyterian Cemetery, which was established circa 1741–1742.
Looking northwest at City of Rahway water works, September 22, 2005. The Rahway River is a river in Essex, Middlesex, and Union Counties, New Jersey, United States, The Rahway, along with the Elizabeth River, Piles Creek, Passaic River, Morses Creek, and the Fresh Kills River (in Staten Island), has its river mouth at the Arthur Kill.
Based at the site where 1571-1579 Irving Street now stands, on Irving Street between Coach and Elizabeth, [1] Rahway, New Jersey, Tesla Electric Light and Manufacturing Company was started in December 1884 after the inventor Nikola Tesla left Thomas Edison's employment following a disagreement over payment. [2]
The Rahway Valley Railroad (RVRR) was a short-line railroad in the Northeastern United States which connected the Lehigh Valley Railroad in Roselle Park and the Central Railroad of New Jersey in Cranford with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western in Summit. Operating over a span of 95 years from 1897 until 1992 in Union County, New Jersey, in ...
Merck & Co., Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey, and is named for Merck Group, founded in Germany in 1668, of which it was once the American arm. The company does business as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical ...