Rahway, New Jersey

Rahway is a city in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 29,556.

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Coordinates: 40°36′26″N 74°16′52″W
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Union
Area
• Total	4.041 sq mi (10.47 km2)
• Land	3.896 sq mi (10.09 km2)
• Water	0.145 sq mi (0.38 km2)
Population  (2020)
• Total	29,556
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Website	www.cityofrahway.org

Rahway, New Jersey Media

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  Location map of Rahway from 1922. The present-day ride to New York by train is typically 38 minutes.

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  An engraving from 1857 of Main Street in Rahway from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.

• The Rahway rail station as it was depicted by an artist in 1857. Flatt's carriage warehouse is at left and Degraw's Hotel is center.

• Elm Avenue, looking west, c. early 1900s

• The old Rahway library. Built in 1869, the building is now home to an art gallery, The Gallery Space.

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  The Wheatena breakfast cereal plant in 1923, with the Rahway River at left. The brand promoted a popular radio series starring Raymond Knight: "Wheatenaville, the Rahway factory complex, transformed into Wheatenaville, the 1930s radio serial about a perfect family in a perfect town that ate Wheatena for strength and prosperity."

• The title page of a work by Henry Drummond and published by the Mershon Company of Rahway, which began as bookbinder W. L. Mershon & Co. in 1877 and became a book publisher in the 1890s.

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  The Regina Music Box Company at 54 Cherry Street Rahway in 1895. The former factory building has been converted to the Heritage Square condos.

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  Rahway Welcome Sign

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  Rahway River and water tower