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Historical Dates
- March 18, 1868 - cemetery was incorporated as the East Clarkson Cemetery Association
- 1894 - endowment and savings funds were established
- 1903 - a general endowment fund was formed for the permanent maintenance of the cemetery
- 1906 - more ground was purchased to arrange for suitable fences and to beautify the property with gates
- 1910 - the first woman trustee was elected
- August 28, 1928 - a trust agreement was established with Security Trust Co. to act as agents to manage the permanent maintenance funds and the trust continues today with Bank of America
- March 16, 1929 - sixty-three lot owners voted to change the name of the cemetery to the Garland Cemetery Association and raise the number of trustees from three to nine
- June 7, 1940 - the Garland Cemetery Association Inc. received a certificate of reincorporation from the State of New York directed under the Membership Corporation Law of the State
Improvements over the Years
- The vault was built in 1923 and refurbished in 2016
- Road improvements were done in 1924, 1935, 1959, and 2017
- West drive was added in 1964
- Land west of the farthest drive was leveled in 1974 for future burial sites
- Metal barn built in 1973
- Garland Cemetery Monument added to the front of the cemetery in 2007. The Hale Monument Company of Brockport, owned by Maureen Reding at that time, donated the monument
- The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #2890 of Brockport in 2007 donated the flagpole
- The Veterans of Foreign Wars donated the Veterans monument in 2008. Also donating to this monument was the children ofWWII veteran Charley Truelson
- The Veterans Association Ladies Auxiliary Unit #379 donated the bench at the Veterans monument in 2010.
- Old pillars and fence removed from the front of the property in 2015 and new pillars and knee walls added to the entrance driveways
- Columbarium installed in 2023
