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Encyclopedia Britannica



RAHWAY

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 817 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
RAHWAY , a city of
Union
  county, New
Jersey
 , U.S.A., in the north-eastern part of the state, on the Rahway river and about 20 m. S.W. of New
York
  City. Pop. (189o) 7105; (1900) 7935, of whom 1345 were foreign-born; (1910 U.S. census) 9337. Rahway is served by the main line of the
Pennsylvania
  railroad, and is connected with neighbouring cities by electric lines. It has wide streets and attractive parks, and is, to some extent, a residential suburb of New
York
  and other neighbouring cities. It has a public library (1864), with upwards of 17,000 volumes, and about r 2 m. distant is the New
Jersey
  Reformatory (1903), to which prisoners between the ages of sixteen and thirty may be sentenced instead of to the State Prison. There are various manufactures. Rahway was first settled in 1720, and was named in honour of the Indian
chief
  Rahwack, whose tribe owned the site and the surrounding territory; it was chartered as a city in 1858. For many years Rahway was popularly known as Spanktown, and in January 1777, during the War of Independence, a skirmish, known as the battle of Spanktown, was fought here.


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