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Discovering More Old Oakwood Cemetery Roads & Ruins, Troy, NY I am at Oakwood Cemetery often because I use its graves in my series on symbolism and meaning of gravestone statuary. It’s hard not to notice old roads and byways when you are driving and walking around. I have always been fascinated by old roads and ruins thinking to myself, what were they for? Why were they changed, why did they become disused, where did they go and what was there? Oakwood Cemetery exudes the culture and history of Troy and the area around it. We drive around the cemetery today on paved roads but in the early 19th century it would have been horse and buggy. Further, the equipment that was used was horse drawn which means there would have been barns and paddocks for the horses, feed, and stables. It seems that some of the old roads may go to old barns and some of the areas could have held wooden structures. Yet some of the ruins we found today were strange in size and appearance and we found multiple roads. The next few paragraphs on the cemetery are found in the vlog “Discovering an Old Oakwood Cemetery Road & Ruins” [   • #Discovering an Old Oakwood Cemetery ...  ] It was organized in 1848 at the peak of the rural cemetery movement and is now a National Historic Landmark, The Cemetery is both ‘graveyard’ and garden and spreads over 280 acres of forested parkland north and east of the City of Troy and the Village of Lansingburgh. It was declared one of the most exceptional rural cemeteries in the US, and the grounds of Oakwood feature beautiful trails, several ponds, sculptures, and stonework and commands views of the Hudson River Valley which serve as a spectacular backdrop to the history of its “residents.” [1] Troy’s first burial ground was founded in 1796 and was located on the corner of Third and State Streets. Two other burial grounds, the Troy Cemetery located on the southeast slope of Mount Ida (now Prospect Park) and the Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue, rounded out the principal non-sectarian city burial grounds. The Rev. Peter Havermans, organizer the earliest Catholic parishes, instituted Catholic burial grounds by the 1860s. Two Jewish burial grounds were founded on the eastern outskirts of the city in the last quarter of the 19th century. [2] The site selected by the Cemetery Trusties comprised 150 acres of land just north of Troy and east of the Village of Lansingburgh on an escarpment with views of the foothills of the Adirondacks to the north, the Cohoes Falls to the west and the Helderberg Mountains and Hudson River Valley to the south. They contracted Philadelphia landscape engineer J. C. Sydney to lay out the curvilinear roads, plots and plantings. Sydney utilized the abundance of natural water sources to create the many ponds and waterfalls that improve the landscape of Oakwood. In 1871 the Troy Cemetery Association acquired a further 150 acres attached to the original property. Landscape architect John Boetcher pioneered a wide variety of rare shrubs and plants, many of which survive today, to the Oakwood landscape. [3] Oakwood was consciously laid out to provide sanctuary, solitude, quiet, adornment, and beauty so that on Sundays, whole families could picnic taking long walks in the peaceful settings. [4] Overtime the cemetery road system has been upgraded for 20th century vehicles as opposed to 19th century horse drawn buggies and wagons. Some roads and trails went out of use, buildings were consolidated with old ones going out of use and into ruin. Even today we see some roads are not even gravel but are grass paths and some of the older buildings have been repurposed. The deep depressions that are found as we walked along are geologically called kettles. Kettles are depressions that form in an outwash plain or other glacial deposit by the melting of a block of glacier ice that was separated from the retreating glacier-margin and subsequently buried by glacier sedimentation. As the buried ice melts, the depression enlarges. [1] Troy Cemetery Association, Inc. The History of Oakwood Cemetery, oakwoodcemetery.org/the-history-of-oakwood-cemetery,2023. [2] Ibid. [3] Ibid. [4] Ibid. Please check out my other videos. . . I have different playlists that include Cultural History-Places; Cities-History/Culture; Trains & Canals; Historic Cemeteries; Troy, NY History; the Baker Sheep Farm Archaeological Site, and a few “shorts.” Subscribe to the channel here:    / @the_cultural_historian_drrgst   Dr. RGST INFORMATION: https://rich3224.wixsite.com/rugenstein Dr. RGST’s BOOKS: https://fiction4all.com/ebooks/a2362.htm CHANNEL MERCHANDISE: http://tee.pub/lic/CulturalHistorian GYPSY-GUY MERCHANDISE, a great place to buy Camping, Hiking, Travel Clothing and Equipment here and use the Coupon Code DrRGST: https://gypsy-guy.com/?ref=fdwRnSax