Ramapo
Ramapo (occasionally spelled Ramapough) is the name of several places and institutions in northern New Jersey (Bergen and Passaic Counties) and the adjoining area of Rockland County in 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.
The Ramapough Mountain Indians, now called the Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation, are recognized by New Jersey as a Native American tribe and are descendants of the Lenape Munsee. They live in the area in the Ramapo Mountains.
Places
In New Jersey
- Ramapo Valley County Reservation, a Bergen County park
- Ramapo Mountain State Forest, in Bergen and Passaic Counties
In New York
- East Ramapo Central School District, serves the village of Spring Valley and surrounding areas in the town of Ramapo
- Ramapo Central School District, serves the village of Suffern, and surrounding areas in the town of Ramapo
- Ramapo High School (New York), in Ramapo
- Ramapo, New York, a town in Rockland County
In New Jersey and New York
People
- Ramapough Mountain Indians, or Ramapough Lenape Indian Nation, a tribal group living in and near the Ramapo Mountains
Educational institutions
- Ramapo College, in Mahwah, New Jersey, United States
- Ramapo High School (New Jersey), in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, United States
- Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States
Other
- Ramapo Fault, in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
- USS Ramapo (AO-12), a United States Navy oiler in commission from 1919 to 1946
See also
- All pages beginning with "Ramapo"
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