During the colonial years it was a main artery of travel for both the British and American armies during the American Revolution. Paramus Road was once an Indian trail even before the arrival of the first settlers. The earliest recorded pioneers in Paramus included Jacob Epke Banta who patented land in 1686, Isaac Van Saun whose patent was dated back to 1695, and Albert Zabriskie whose land was deeded to him by Indians in 1702. It comes from the Lenape word “peramsepuss” sometimes translated as “land of the wild turkeys” or “fertile fields where turkeys are found.” A large metal statue of a wild turkey can be found today at the Paramus Park Mall.
The native Lenni Lenape Indians gave Paramus its name. When it was incorporated as a borough in 1922 it was a rural area of celery farms and dirt roads. Paramus was not always the land of enormous malls and shopping centers that has made it one of the top retail zip codes in the U.S.
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