Vale Cemetery’s African American Ancestral Burial Ground holds the remains of many storied figures in Schenectady history. Moses Viney, a runaway slave befriended and later freed by Union ...

SCHENECTADY-- Only a third of an estimated 90 graves in an African-American ancestral burial ground at Vale Cemetery have headstones, according to Bernard McEvoy, a cemetery board member. He based ...

Siena College History Professor Tom Kelly conducts a "Vale and Valor" tour of Vale Cemetery in Schenectady. Sunday's tour focused on the graves of soldiers who fought in great military conflicts ...

Consecration of Vale Cemetery, at Schencetady. Share full article. Oct. 22, 1857. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from October 22, 1857, Page 5 Buy ...

But the 100-acre Vale Cemetery in Schenectady also holds its own historical gems, several of which will be highlighted Sunday in the second narrated tour of the season.