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The recorded history of Rockland County, New York begins on February 23, 1798, when the county was split off from Orange County, New York and formed as its own administrative division of the state of New York. It is located 6 miles (9.7 km) north-northwest of New York City, and is part of the New York Metropolitan Area.
Rockland County is the southernmost county on the west side of the Hudson River in the U.S. state of New York.It is part of the New York metropolitan area.As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population is 338,329, [4] making it the state's third-most densely populated county outside New York City after Nassau and neighboring Westchester counties.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Rockland County, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [ 1 ]
Ramapo is a town in Rockland County, New York, United States. It was originally formed as New Hampstead, in 1791, and became Ramapo in 1828. [2] It shares its name with the Ramapo River. As of the 2020 census, Ramapo had a total population of 148,919, making it the most populous town in New York outside of Long Island.
Cardona House – First Rockland County schoolhouse. Built of stone and brick in 1711 on church land and used as a school until 1860. 1700 DeClark-DeWint House – 20 Livingston Street – Built in 1700, oldest house in Rockland County. To the northwest and northeast of the front entrance of the 1700 DeWint house are the carriage house and a ...
On the front facade is the county World War I Memorial. [ 2 ] The Dutch Garden was designed by Mary Horgan Mowbray-Clarke (1874–1962), a West Nyack native and wife of the sculptor John Mowbray-Clarke , [ 3 ] in 1933–34 and constructed between 1934 and 1938 as a Works Progress Administration project.
Rockland's legal action, and some Republicans, argue that New York is a home-rule state in which local governments — counties, cities, towns, and villages — are granted broad powers to ...
Lake Sebago. Johnsontown was founded in the late 18th century by the Johnson brothers, who came to the mountain area looking for timber to use for shipbuilding. [2] It stretched along what is now known as Lake Sebago and Lake Kanawauke in the western part of Harriman State Park, making it the largest settlement in the Palisades Interstate Park Commission.