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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.
Torne Brook Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Ramapo in Rockland County, New York. [2] The complex consists of the mansion built about 1872 in the High Victorian Gothic style, eight contributing and related outbuildings, and one contributing structure. The main block of the mansion is a 2-story wood-frame dwelling on a cut ...
The Town of Ramapo, New York passed a zoning ordinance prohibiting development of a subdivision plat unless the property owners had a special permit, one of the early Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances. Permits were granted based on a point system based on available municipal facilities in the area of proposed development, with the intent of ...
Ramapo (occasionally spelled Ramapough) is the name of several places and institutions in northern New Jersey and southeastern New York State. They were named after the Ramapough, a band of the Lenape Indians who migrated into the area from Connecticut by the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Sloatsburg is a village in the town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York, United States. Located east of Orange County , it is at the southern entrance to Harriman State Park . The population was 3,036 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ]
Articles about people, places and things associated with the Ramapo Mountain and Valley region of New Jersey and New York. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Records show that in 1708 the Ridgefield settlers petitioned the colonial General Assembly at Hartford to remove the Ramapo. Katonah sold the Ramapo lands of 20,000 acres for 100 Pounds Sterling to the "Proprietors of Ridgefield". His name appears on land deeds up to 1743. The Remnant tribe of the Ramapo scattered to the north and west. [2]
Coe was a Federalist member of the New York State Assembly (Orange Co.) in 1789-90, 1791, 1792 and 1794. He was a member of the New York State Senate (Middle D.) from 1795 to 1798, sitting in the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st New York State Legislatures. He died on May 3, 1824, and was buried in the family farm's burial plot.