The Log Meetinghouse Cemetery is one of the oldest public cemeteries in the town of Schodack. Located at the intersection of Sagendorf and North Schodack Roads, the cemetery is on the east side of North Schodack Road across from the site of the Schodack Baptist Church. The church was referred to as St. Peter's Baptist Church in a Stephen Van Rensselaer deed from the 1790s. The church was formed in 1780, and the membership first built a "log meeting house" for services on the site of the present cemetery. This structure was removed in 1800, and a church was built across the road and remained on the site until 1938 when it was dismantled and moved to Albany County.

The earliest burials in the Log Meetinghouse Cemetery range from 1799 to 1806. There have been around 180 burials in the two-hundred-plus years the cemetery has existed. The last burial was in 1941. Many of the stones were marble and are no longer readable due to the effect of time and acid rain on marble.

Time and neglect are the greatest enemies of old cemeteries such as the Log Meetinghouse Cemetery. Nature can quickly reclaim untended graves. For many years the cemetery was abandoned, overgrown with weeds, and hidden by large trees. Starting in 1938, local residents recorded the graves in the cemetery comparing them to the few church records that survived. The existing graves were again recorded in 1966 and 1980. In 1991 the Historical Society of Esquatak, the local historical society for the towns of Schodack and Nassau, started a major restoration effort resulting in the cemetery as you see it today.

Diane Hutchinson, Town Historian, 2006