Old Dutch New Year: Talk of the Taverns First Day Hike

71 Somerset Street,Somerville NJ 08876

01 January, 2022

Description

Catch the “talk of the taverns” on this guided walk in Somerville from Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Sites. Catch the “talk of the taverns” on this guided walk in historic Somerville. Pause at several sights to learn about Somerville’s eighteenth-century Tunison's Tavern and George Washington’s passage through this area 245 years ago in January 1777 following the Battles of Trenton and Princeton. Return to our “Sign of the Red Lion Tavern” as the sun sets and "illumination" by candlelight begins. "Talk of the Taverns" is one of 25 "First Day Hikes" from the New Jersey State Park Service offered as part of a national initiative of America's State Parks.