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List of towns, formation dates, and other details
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Clarkstown |
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Settled pre-revolution by Dutch |
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1791 Formed in Orange County from Town of Haverstraw |
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1798 Transferred to new county of Rockland |
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Hampstead |
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Name of Town of Ramapo 1797–1828 |
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Haverstraw |
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Part of Chesecock, Kakiat(e), and several smaller patents |
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1616 On Dutch maps as Haverstroo |
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1719 Separated from Orangetown as Precinct of Haverstraw |
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1788 Recognized as a town in Orange County by State of New York |
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1791 Daughter towns Clarkstown and New Hampstead (now Ramapo) formed |
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1798 Transferred to new county of Rockland |
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1865 Daughter town Stony Point formed |
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New Hampstead |
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Name of Town of Ramapo 1791–1797 |
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Orangetown |
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1680 Settled by Dutch |
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1686 Orangetown patent, also called Tappan Patent, in Orange County |
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1702 First courts were held in Tappantown, county seat for Orange County |
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1719 Precinct of Haverstraw formed from Precinct of Orangetown |
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1788 Recognized as a town in Orange County by State of New York |
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1798 Transferred to new county of Rockland |
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Ramapo |
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1791 Formed in Orange County as New Hempstead from Town of Haverstraw |
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1797 Name changed to Hempstead |
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1798 Transferred to new county of Rockland |
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1828 Name changed to Ramapo |
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Stony Point |
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1865 Formed from Town of Haverstraw |
Selected links to town websites, clerks, and historians
| Clarkstown | |
| Haverstraw | |
| Orangetown | |
| Ramapo | |
| Stonypoint | |
| Airmont | |
| Chestnut Ridge | |
| Grand View-on-Hudson | |
| Haverstraw | |
| Hillburn | |
| Kaser | |
| Montebello | |
| Nyack | |
| Piermont | |
| Pomona | |
| Sloatsburg | |
| South Nyack | |
| Spring Valley | |
| Suffern | |
| Upper Nyack | |
| Wesley Hills | |
| West Haverstraw |