Mechanic Street Cemetery
Rensselaer, Rensselaer County, New York, USA
"AUGUSTUS FILLEY, Sheriff.
"By. L. RYSEDORPH, Deputy."
Troy Daily Whig. December 19, 1837: 2 col 5.
"Cemetery" at end of driveway (now the one-lane Plum Street) off Mechanic Street (now Third Avenue) on inset Greenbush map.
Map of Rensselaer Co., New York. Philadelphia, PA: Smith, Gallup & Co. Publishers, 1861.
"Cem." at end of driveway (now the one-lane Plum Street) off Third Avenue.
Beers, F. W. "." Atlas of the Hudson River Valley. Watson & Co., 1891
A playground and park and (possibly parts of Plum Street) were placed on the site of the cemetery sometime before 1933.
"City Engineer John E. Quinn was directed [...] to grade the Third Avenue playground and erect a wire fence around the grounds."
"Bids Accepted in Rensselaer Council Work; Long Session in Awards for Contracts Totaling $14,636." Albany Evening News. April 19, 1934: 12 col 1.
It has not yet proven possible to find any record of the cemetery having been moved. The cemetery is still identified as a cemetery on the current tax map, a lot just over an acre in size.
City of Rensselaer Tax Map 143.76 (page 33 of 63)
"AUGUSTUS FILLEY, Sheriff.
"By. L. RYSEDORPH, Deputy."
Troy Daily Whig. December 19, 1837: 2 col 5.
"Cemetery" at end of driveway (now the one-lane Plum Street) off Mechanic Street (now Third Avenue) on inset Greenbush map.
Map of Rensselaer Co., New York. Philadelphia, PA: Smith, Gallup & Co. Publishers, 1861.
"Cem." at end of driveway (now the one-lane Plum Street) off Third Avenue.
Beers, F. W. "." Atlas of the Hudson River Valley. Watson & Co., 1891
A playground and park and (possibly parts of Plum Street) were placed on the site of the cemetery sometime before 1933.
"City Engineer John E. Quinn was directed [...] to grade the Third Avenue playground and erect a wire fence around the grounds."
"Bids Accepted in Rensselaer Council Work; Long Session in Awards for Contracts Totaling $14,636." Albany Evening News. April 19, 1934: 12 col 1.
It has not yet proven possible to find any record of the cemetery having been moved. The cemetery is still identified as a cemetery on the current tax map, a lot just over an acre in size.
City of Rensselaer Tax Map 143.76 (page 33 of 63)
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- Added: 19 Dec 2014
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2563296
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