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1832 Blauvelt House

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Jacob Blauvelt's ancestors came to the New World from Holland in the early 1600s. In 1741 Jacob's great-grandfather bought this land in New City and passed it down from father to sons for generations. In 1832 when Jacob built this house, it sat on about 100 acres of farmland. There was...read more

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The Jacob J. Blauvelt house and its four remaining acres of land had been in the Blauvelt family since the time it was built, in 1832, up until when it was acquired by the Historical Society of Rockland County in 1970. The Blauvelt family first arrived in America in 1638,...read more

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Good afternoon, welcome to the Historical Society of Rockland County. If you have any questions please feel free to ask. I will do the best I can to answer them for you. If you lived in Rockland County during the 1830s when the house was built, you probably would have...read more

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