Explore Buffalo is offering several cemetery tours in August. There will be a walking tour of Holy Cross Cemetery on Sunday, August 13 at 10 a.m. Irish immigrants and their descendants helped transform Buffalo the city from a village to a booming metropolis. Hear their
Three cemetery walking tours will take place in August. The Little Falls Historical Society will present a walking tour of Church Street Cemetery on Tuesday, Aug. 8 at 6:30 p.m. What do gravestones with shrouded urns, weeping angels, lambs, flowers and tree stumps represent? Who
The Rombout Rurual Cemetery Association, in Fishkill, has two cemetery work days scheduled in August and September. Participants will assist with repairing stone walls, cleaning brush, cleaning and uprighting stones, among other things. Meet on Sunday, August 6 or Sunday, September 10 from 10 a.m.
The Saratoga Springs History Museum will offer two programs about Greenridge Cemetery in July and September. On Thursday, July 27, from 7-8:30 p.m. there will be a lecture on the many symbols found on the gravestones, monuments and mausoleums located in historic Greenridge Cemetery. The
There will be several walking tours of two Buffalo area cemeteries in July and August. Concordia Cemetery, located in Buffalo, was founded in 1859 and is one of the oldest cemeteries in Western New York. After being abandoned in 2001, the cemetery is now maintained
