The cemetery is a 70-acre (28 ha) rectangular parcel on the south side of Route 31 between the Butts and Keitel Road intersections, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) east of the village of Albion.

A short distance south is a small parking lot and sandstone chapel, a Gothic building with steep gabled roof shingled in slate.

A pointed-arched door on the north side opens to a spiral staircase climbing to the overlook at the top,[1] which offers 360-degree views of the surrounding countryside.

Soon after, the citizens of Albion selected Lorenzo Burrows and Alexis Ward to locate a parcel of land on which a new municipal cemetery could be established.

The cemetery was dedicated on September 7, 1843 in the presence of thousands of local residents who listened to a public address by Daniel Cady, Esq.

[3] Oversight of the cemetery fell under the responsibility of the village president and board of trustees while lot owners were tasked with caring for and improving their graves.

In 1862, after nearly two decades of poor upkeep and minimal improvements, the village board of trustees appointed three commissioners to oversee the cemetery; Lorenzo Burrows, Lemuel C. Paine, and Henry J. Sickels.

The following year, the Gothic Revival cemetery chapel was constructed of locally quarried Medina Sandstone at a cost of $3,000 by A. Harris and R. Romp.

The structure's design was completed by Charles Diem, a local marble dealer operating with Norman S. Field in Albion.

On June 1, 1883, a committee led by David Hardie met to select a fifty square foot lot for the interment of Civil War veterans.

Four years later, Hiram Curtis Post GAR appointed a committee to secure the removal of veterans from the potter's field within Mt.