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Ringwood is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 23, 1918, from a portion of Pompton Township, following a referendum held on March 22, 1918.

Ringwood was one of three boroughs formed from Pompton Township at that time, alongside Bloomingdale and Wanaque, and it was named for an iron mining company in the area.

The 2020 census counted 11,735 residents in 4,180 households in Ringwood.

Iron was discovered in the Ringwood area early in the 1700s, the Ogden family built a blast furnace there in 1742, and by 1765 Peter Hasenclever was running ironmaking operations centered on Ringwood.

During the American Revolutionary War, Ringwood iron was used in the famous Hudson River Chain and for tools and hardware for the Continental Army.

Robert Erskine managed the Ringwood ironworks during the Revolution and became George Washington's first geographer and Surveyor-General, producing maps for the Continental Army, while Washington himself visited Ringwood Manor several times.

One of Ringwood Manor's last owners was Abram S. Hewitt, an ironmaster who served in Congress and as Mayor of New York City, and the manor is part of a National Historic Landmark District.

In 1936 Erskine Hewitt donated the 51-room Ringwood Manor and its surrounding acreage to the state, seeding what became Ringwood State Park.

Ringwood State Park covers 4,444 acres in the Ramapo Mountains and contains four distinct areas: Ringwood Manor, Skylands Manor and the New Jersey State Botanical Garden, Shepherd Lake, and Bear Swamp Lake.

The state acquired Skylands in 1966, the 1920s Tudor Revival manor built by Clarence McKenzie Lewis, and its grounds became the New Jersey Botanical Garden, designated the official state botanical garden in 1984, with 96 acres and more than 5,000 plant species.