History
Ramarama was originally only bushland and also there was a pa site inhabited by the Ngati Pou tribe of the Maori. It also hid pathways between Tamaki, Hauraki and the Waikato.
In the 1850s, the British built the Great South Road through the land.
Reverend McDonald, a widely famed priest at the time, decided to build a church where the Pratts Rd. Cemetery stands now. The Church was called Saint Brigids and also functioned as a school. The church itself was moved to Selwyn Oaks but the school was called Maketu School and henceforth Ramarama School.
The Te Maketu Waterfall is hidden behind the Pratts Rd. Cemetery. Reverend McDonald wrote a book on it called “The Well Known Secret of the Waterfall”
Ramarama is named after the Ramarama Tree, a small tree that is hard to find and its leaves can cure bruises if you crush them.
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