Tutors & Taverns: 250 Years of Teaching at Rutgers
Wallace House & Old Dutch Parsonage State Historic Site
9-Oct 10 AM to 5 PM
Description: Academic instruction at Rutgers began 250 years when Old Dutch Parsonage’s Frederick Frelinghuysen offered the first tutorials for Queen’s College at the Sign of the Red Lion Tavern in New Brunswick in November 1771. Special historic houses tours explore the Dutch roots of the State University of New Jersey at Old Dutch Parsonage and New Jersey’s early leadership in American higher education at Wallace House. On Sunday visit our “Sign of the Red Lion” Interpretive Center for “The Lure and Lore of Liquor: Tavern Beverages of the American Revolution” with historian and mixologist David Emerson.
Age: all ages
Please call (908) 725-1015 or  https://wallacedutch.eventbrite.com/.