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Service and Care since 1889

The Kensico Cemetery was organized in 1889 under the “Act authorizing the incorporation of Rural Cemetery Association” passed April 27th 1847 and the several amendments thereto. The first interment was made September 1, 1889. This Cemetery is in the Hamlet of Valhalla in the township of Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York. It has frontage of about one mile on the Rail Road track with a gradual ascent to the highest point of land between Tarrytown and Long Island Sound.

  • April 6, 2026

    Friends of Kensico Cemetery Receives $230,000 State Grant for Wetland and Stream Restoration

    VALHALLA, N.Y. — The Friends of Kensico Cemetery has been awarded $230,000 from the New York State Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) through the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation's Invasive Species Grant Program, Round 4. The grant will fund ecological restoration work to restore a degraded wetland and stream habitat within the cemetery's 460-acre grounds in [...]