In 1853, the village purchased 13 acres from Andrew Porteus of Queensbury, New York for the sum of $1000, with $500 set aside for grading and fencing.

[2] The first burial took place in 1855, but there are several older markers which were moved here from the old West Street Cemetery in the early 1870s.

[2] The Memorial Chapel (1946) is a small, front gabled stone building with a slate roof.

The cemetery office (1950) is a concrete stucco finished building with a peaked slate roof.

The cemetery includes a number of notable burial monuments and mausoleums.