Below are links to additional information on the Albany Rural Cemetery and other resources relevant to the history of the Church Grounds.
Location of the Church Grounds
Albany Rural Cemetery on Twitter
Friends of the Albany Rural Cemetery (Consider joining as this group publishes a newsletter with excellent articles on the Cemetery’s history)
Albany Rural Cemetery on Wikipedia
An Epic City of The Dead – Times Union special feature on the Albany Rural Cemetery
Albany Rural Cemetery – Beyond The Graves – a Facebook page
Fieldstone Burial Markers In The Upper Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Burying The Dead In Early Albany
Hoxsie! – The Dutch Church Burying Yard
The Old Woman of St. Mary’s Park – from a 1931 Albany newspaper article profiling the widow of a cemetery caretaker
Albany Rural Cemetery – History In Photos
Bike Paths of Albany Rural Cemetery (The maps here are a handy guide to the Cemetery, even for the non-bicyclist)
The People of Colonial Albany (a fascinating social history project documenting the lives of early Albany residents)
Troy Irish Genealogy – includes a transcription of names recorded by the Common Council when the State Street Burying Grounds were removed. The list does not included interments in the Church Grounds after the transfer.
Other cemetery resources:
The Association For Gravestone Studies
An excellent guide to cemetery terms, monument styles, etc.
Friends of the Evangelical Protestant Cemetery
In addition to Albany Rural Cemetery – History In Photos, I also post the following blogs:
Also:
Garden Alley Media – a central site for my various projects
You can follow me on Twitter where I tweet updates to this and my other local interest blogs.
