Ramapo River

While the plant has been dismantled, a superfund site has been designated at the location where barrels of toxic chemicals were buried.

Many smaller archeological sites in Oakland, New Jersey were found to have been inhabited by prehistoric indigenous peoples.

Many Ramapough Lenape people have lived in what is now Mahwah and Ringwood, New Jersey and Hillburn, New York since the late colonial period.

During the American Revolution, the Torne served as a lookout for British ship movements on the Hudson.

Legend tells that Gen. George Washington lost his watch on the mountain, and it may still be heard ticking up there in a crevice of rock.

Map of the Passaic/Hackensack watershed.
Two men in waders casting long fishing poles with yellow-colored line in flat water on a bend of a river, seen from slightly above the water.
Fly fishermen on Ramapo at Tuxedo, NY