Vale Cemetery Association
In February 1858, the Common Council declared that it could not continue to run the cemetery at the taxpayers expense and that the cemetery must pass into private ownership. Fourteen of the lot holders formed the Vale Cemetery Association and under the then State laws, they bought the 38 acres (150,000 m2) from the Common Council. They paid the sum of $800 which was coupled with a declaration that some land known as Potter's Field, would be set aside for the burial of the poor. In 2007 as part of the Schenectady Colonial celebrations, the Association held a dinner to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the cemetery.
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