Forest Park Cemetery, also known as Forest Hills Cemetery
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Forest Park Cemetery, also known as Forest Hills Cemetery, Pinewoods Avenue, west of Eagle Mills. The Forest Park Cemetery was organized by a group of Troy businessmen in 1897 who purchased about 200 acres of land from the John Sherry Estate and hired Garnet D. Baltimore, the first African-American to graduate from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, to design the cemetery. A dozen years later the cemetery encountered financial difficulties. Most of the undeveloped land was sold the Country Club of Troy for a golf course. About 1918, a group of out-of-town investors attempted to operate the cemetery under the name Forest Hills Cemetery. This venture also failed. Oversight of the cemetery was thereafter largely accomplished through the voluntary efforts of a man named William Christen. |
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In recent decades, Mother Nature reclaimed Forest Park Cemetery, giving it a dismal appearance. In 1990 the Town of Brunswick assumed responsibility for the cemetery in accordance with the municipal laws of the state. |
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