Cemetery Services
Despite more than 33,000 burials over more than a hundred years, Vale Cemetery continues to provide a full range of affordable cremation and burial services to this day.
Historic Preservation isn’t just about buildings, and preservation success stories don’t happen overnight. They also don’t happen in silos. The Vale Cemetery Association’s efforts to revive and restore the African American Ancestral Burying Ground were successful because of countless volunteer hours, lots of research, community input, and grassroots support.
-- Preserve New York State
News From Vale
Upcoming Events at Vale
Some of the upcoming events at Vale Cemetery include:The 1857 Tour - June 18 @ 5:30 pm - a rural ...The Voice of The Vale - Spring 2026
The Spring 2026 issue of our newsletter, The Voice of Vale Cemetery, is now available. The new issue includes a ...April Events at Vale
Spring is here and our Event calendar is filling up quickly.April events at Vale include:Gravestone Cleaning Class with SCCCSchenectady County ...Upcoming Events
Notable Women Tour
If you missed Sue McLane's pouplar Victorian Woman In Mourning tour earlier this year, you can catch her one more ...Headstone Cleaning Class
Would you like to learn how to clean cemetery stones? Do you have a family plot with a stone that ...Owl Prowl
Join naturlist George Steele for an "owl prowl" walk through Vale to watch for owls, including Eastern Screech, Great Horned ...Help Vale
Vale Cemetery survives financially only with the assistance of others.
Please consider helping Vale preserve this valuable and unique resource with your donation of time, money andmaterials or by participating in one of our annual fundraisers.
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