N 40° 37.(The number at the TOP of the "Merchants and Drovers Sign" - 1756)
Until the Sign is repaired! The North Coordinates are N 40° 37.024. Good Luck Sue&Barry
W 074° 17. (The year that the "Battle of Spanktown" was fought - 1699)
The cache, a Bison tube with an extension for easy retrieval, is hid in Rahway Cemetery. Please bring your own pen or pencil. Parking is available on St. Georges and Westfield Avenues
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The Merchants and Drovers Tavern, was built in the late 18th century on the road to Elizabethtown. John Anderson purchased the building in 1798 and applied for a license to operate a "tavern at Rahway...in the house lately occupied by Squire Pierson as a store." Operated continuously as an inn from 1798 until the mid-1930s, the hotel has remained substantially unchanged. It is now a museum and open to the public.
It is located at the corner of St. Georges Avenue and Westfield Avenue in Rahway.
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Before or after you find the Final MicroCache, we suggest you take some time to investigate this extraordinary place. If you do, you will see a small Red house now used as the cemetery office, that was a School - circa 1750, and in the Terrill family plot, the gravestone of "Ambo" (N 40° 37.028, W 074° 17.139), a slave, who lived to be a 100. Her son, who is buried nearby, is purported to have constructed the first clock made in the colonies.
