Tuxedo, New York
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Tuxedo Train Station
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 Location in Orange County and the state of New York. |
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| Coordinates: 41°13′19″N 74°11′8″W / 41.22194°N 74.18556°WCoordinates: 41°13′19″N 74°11′8″W / 41.22194°N 74.18556°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| County | Orange |
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| • Total | 49.4 sq mi (127.8 km2) |
| • Land | 47.4 sq mi (122.9 km2) |
| • Water | 1.9 sq mi (5.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 479 ft (146 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 3,624 |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 10987 |
| Area code(s) | 845 |
| FIPS code | 36-75781 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0979566 |
Tuxedo is a town located in Orange County, New York along the Ramapo River. As of the 2010 census, the town had a total population of 3,624. The town is in the southeastern part of the county in the Ramapo Mountains. New York State Route 17 and the New York State Thruway (Interstate 87) pass through the town. The name is derived from a Lenape word tucseto, which has several known meanings.
The historic occupants of what is now the town of Tuxedo were the Lenni-Lenape Indians, a branch of the large Algonquian language family of Native Americans, whose different branches lived along the East Coast from Canada through the Upper South. The Lenape named the largest lake in the area Tucseto, meaning either "place of the bear" or "clear flowing water." European-American colonists later adopted that name for the town they developed.
Some Lenape stayed in villages in the Ramapo Mountains, having migrated west from Connecticut. They gradually intermarried with other ethnic groups in what was long a relatively remote frontier. They maintained a culture and community of their own in this area on both sides of the later border with New Jersey. The Ramapough Mountain Indians have been recognized by New Jersey as a Native American tribe.
In the 18th century, ethnic English and German colonists settled in the area. The men mostly worked at the nearby Stirling Iron Works in neighboring Ringwood, New Jersey, as did some of the Ramapough Mountain Indians. Ringwood has been one of their centers of settlement. Several men from the Tuxedo area served in the Revolutionary War.
In 1779 the rebel government built the Continental Road from Eagle Valley through the present-day village of Tuxedo Park to what is now Route 17 near Warwick Brook Road. The first industry in Tuxedo was the Augusta Forge at the falls on the Ramapo River, founded by Solomon Townsend in 1783, soon after the end of the war.
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