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The Ramapos is a mountain range in New York which is in Orange and Rockland counties near the New Jersey border.
Margaret Smeltzer (1768-1851), widow of Joseph Switzer, immigrated from Kilcooly, Ireland to Peel County, Ontario with three sons in 1827. John Smeltzer, Sr. (1770-1837)--brother of Margaret (Smeltzer) Switzer--immigrated with his family shortly thereafter, and settled nearby in Peel County, Ontario. Descendants spread throughout Canada and the United States.
Downstate New York Rock Walks is both a hiking guidebook and a history book, calling attention to some of downstate New York's most spectacular and historic rocks: balanced rocks, perched rocks, rock shelters, talus caves, glacial potholes, split rocks, rock profiles, historic rocks, and massive, larger-than-life boulders. Many large glacial erratics have a history going back thousands of years to when they were moved to their present location by advancing glaciers. Many served as points of navigational reference at a time when the landscape was featureless and heavily forested, and still others were ceremonial sites for Native Americans. Rock shelters and talus caves have also been used for...