Editing Blauvelt, New York (section)

==History==
[[File:Blauvelt Grave.JPG|thumb|Gravestone of George Mancius Smeades Blauvelt, a descendant of Pieter Blauwveld]]
The name "Blauvelt", of Dutch origin, is that of a prominent family that settled in the area in the 17th century.  The etymology of the name probably comes from the coat of arms adopted by the first Blauvelt, Pieter Blauwveld, a prominent trader in the [[Netherlands]]. Literally, it means "blue-field", or "blue pasture fields", likely a reference to the blue and yellow shields hung on Blauwveld's ships (a common 14th century Dutch method of identifying the owner). The first Blauvelt in America was a peasant farmer who cultivated tobacco on the estate of [[Kiliaen van Rensselaer (merchant)|Kiliaen van Rensselaer]], the first patroon of the [[Manor of Rensselaerswyck]] near Albany, New York,  in 1638.

In 1909, New York State purchased property in Blauvelt to create [[Camp Bluefields]], a large rifle range used to train members of the [[New York National Guard]] prior to [[World War I]]. The property was later used by the [[YWCA]], [[ROTC]], [[Columbia University]] and the [[U.S. Army]] for various purposes before being abandoned following [[World War II]].<ref name=Rockland_Audubon>{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklandaudubon.org/blauvelt_sp.htm |title=Blauvelt State Park and Tackamack Town Park |website=Rockland Audubon Society |access-date=July 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010421194632/http://www.rocklandaudubon.org/blauvelt_sp.htm |archive-date=April 21, 2001 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The land is today the site of [[Blauvelt State Park]].<ref name=NYSP_main>{{cite web |url=http://parks.ny.gov/parks/49/details.aspx |title=Blauvelt Point State Park |website=Parks.ny.gov |author=NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation |access-date=July 13, 2015}}</ref>

In 1972, Robert Salvia and Professor Dr. Paul Olson of the [[Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory]], a research unit of [[Columbia University]] located on a {{convert|157|acre|km2|adj=on}} campus in [[Palisades, New York]], discovered several 200-million-year-old dinosaur tracks that were identified as being from the [[coelophysis]]. Some of these tracks were sent to the [[New York State Museum]] in [[Albany, New York]] for identification and preservation. The fossils date from the [[Triassic]] period and are claimed to be the only dinosaur tracks ever discovered in the state of New York.<ref name=Fisher_1981>{{cite journal|last1=Fisher|first1=Donald W.|title=The world of Coelophysis - A New York dinosaur of 200 million years ago|journal=New York State Museum and Science Service, Circular 49, Geological Survey|date=December 1981|url=http://nmstatefossil.org/uploadedfiles/0000/0101/Fisher_1981.pdf|access-date=July 13, 2015}}</ref>

The [[914 Sound Studios]] was a musical recording studio in the 1970s.  Several albums were recorded in Blauvelt, including the title track of [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s album ''[[Born to Run]]'' in 1974.<ref name="pareles">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/arts/music/15bruc.html|title='Born to Run' Reborn 30 Years Later|last=Pareles|first=Jon|author-link=Jon Pareles|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=2005-11-15|access-date=2010-11-03}}</ref>