Albany poet Alfred Billings Street was, in his day, best known for his sentimental nature poems and his published accounts of excursions in...

This boulder at the corner of Willett and State Streets honors the namesake of the former, General Marinus Willett. The plaque features a pr...

This afternoon, an informational meeting was held at the Albany Public Library to discuss the reburial of skeletons discovered near the Schu...

Above: Marker in the historic Church Grounds section of Albany Rural Cemetery Today's Times Union has a very interesting article on th...

A number of posts here in recent months have featured gravestones found in the Church Grounds section. The more I explore and research th...

Plaque on State Street near the corner with South Pearl Street. Like most of Albany's colonial relics, the house referenced by this bro...

I've spent quite a bit of time in the Albany Rural Cemetery in recent months. Partly to do research for a book about this wonderful Ce...