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.
Places New Jersey Ramapo Valley County Reservation, a Bergen County park Ramapo Mountain State Forest, in Bergen and Passaic Counties Ramapo Lake Ramapo College of New Jersey, a public college in Mahwah
New York Ramapo, New York, a town in Rockland County Ramapo Central School District, serves the village of Suffern, and surrounding areas in the town of Ramapo Ramapo High School (New York), in Ramapo East Ramapo Central School District, serves the village of Spring Valley and surrounding areas in the town of Ramapo
New Jersey and New York Ramapo Mountains Ramapo River
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 uses Golden v. Planning Board of Ramapo, a 1971 land use planning case Hotel Ramapo, now called Taft Hotel, a historic residential hotel in Portland, Oregon Ramapo Fault, in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania Ramapough Mountain Indians, or Ramapough Lenape Nation, a New Jersey state-recognized tribe , a United States Navy oiler in commission from 1919 to 1946
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