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 ...

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.

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 ...