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Originally a one-quarter acre plot within Woodland Cemetery, the first burials took place in 1861. [1] It was designated a National Cemetery on July 24, 1882. [1] [2]In 1899, the Federal Government purchase a 0.45 acre lot within Graceland Cemetery in Adams County, Illinois, and all the interments were transferred there from the soldiers' plot in Woodland Cemetery. [2]
Illinois Soldiers and Sailors Home a.k.a. Illinois Veterans Home, Quincy, Illinois [39] Soldiers' Widows' Home, Wilmington, Illinois [40] Marion Branch National Military Home, Marion, Indiana [37] Indiana State Soldiers Home, West Lafayette, Indiana [41] Iowa Veterans Home, Marshalltown, Iowa [42] Kansas Soldiers' Home, Fort Dodge, Kansas [43]
This list of cemeteries in Illinois includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
An expansion of Pine Hill Cemetery in Quincy will create 13,600 new spaces ... the National Sailors' Home Cemetery off Fenno Street. ... Mount Wollaston to Quincy veterans of wars spanning from ...
Quincy: 15: Quincy National Cemetery: Quincy National Cemetery: May 6, 2011 : 36th and Maine Sts. Quincy: Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS: 16: Quincy Northwest Historic District: Quincy Northwest Historic District: May 11, 2000
Woodland Cemetery is a historic cemetery located at 1020 South Fifth Street in Quincy, Illinois. Planned by politician John Wood and opened in 1846, the cemetery is a product of America's rural cemetery movement of the mid-nineteenth century.
An expansion of Pine Hill Cemetery in Quincy will create 13,600 new spaces as improvements to Mount Wollaston Cemetery near completion.
Illinois Vietnam Veterans Memorial honors the 2,970 Illinois residents who are listed as killed or listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. Dedicated in 1988, the Memorial includes the names of the dead or missing carved in black granite walls that radiate from the central eternal flame .