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Albany Rural Cemetery
The Albany Rural Cemetery was established October 7, 1844, in Menands, New York, just outside of the city of Albany, New York. It is renowned as one of the most beautiful, pastoral cemeteries in the United States, at over . Many historical American figures are buried there.
==History==
On April 2, 1841, an association was formed to bring the cemetery into being. A committee of the association selected the site on April 20, 1844. The cemetery originally contained . This portion was consecrated October 7, 1844. Daniel D. Barnard delivered the dedication address, which was one of many given at rural cemeteries across the northeast in the years from Justice Joseph Story's address at Mount Auburn Cemetery in 1831 to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863.〔Alfred L. Brophy, ("These Great and Beautiful Republics of the Dead": Public Constitutionalism and the Antebellum Cemetery )〕 The first interment was made in May, 1845.〔Howell, George Rogers & Tenney, Jonathan (Eds.) (1886). ''(Bi-centennial History of Albany: History of the County of Albany, N.Y., from 1609 to 1886. )'' New York: W. W. Munsell & Co. p. 645. Google Book Search. Retrieved on October 4, 2010.〕 Located near the entrance is the Louis Menand House.
In 1868, bodies from other cemeteries were removed and reinterred in Albany Rural Cemetery.〔
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