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Burial places of presidents and vice presidents of the United States are located across 23 states and the District of Columbia. Since the office was established in 1789, 45 people have served as President of the United States. [A] Of these, 40 have died. The state with the most presidential burial sites is Virginia with seven.
The National Cemetery Administration of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains 148 national cemeteries as well as the Nationwide Grave-site Locator, which can be used to find burial locations of American military Veterans through their searchable website.
There are over 300,000 headstones and hundreds of memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House itself is a memorial to George Washington.The son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Parke Custis purchased the 1,100-acre (450 ha) tract of wooded land on the Potomac River north of Alexandria, Virginia in 1778.
Phoebus, Section C, Grave 8709. Sergeant Isaac B. Sapp (1843–1913), for peacetime heroism in 1871. Section A, Grave 10465; First Lieutenant Ruppert L. Sargent (1938–1967 †), for action during the Vietnam War. Hampton Section F-I, Grave 7596. Private Charles Veale (1838–1872), for action at the Battle of Chaffin's Farm, during the Civil ...
Online grave locator service provided by the VA Archived 2020-10-23 at the Wayback Machine; Interment.net burial records of Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery; U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery; Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery at Find a Grave; USS Bennington
During the Civil War, the area around City Point was a Union supply depot, established by General Ulysses S. Grant. Its proximity to the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia made it an ideal staging place. The cemetery was established to reinter soldiers who were buried in the seven nearby hospital cemeteries and those from makeshift ...
Quantico National Cemetery is located on land that was part of the U.S. Marine Corps training base adjacent to Quantico in Prince William County, Virginia.The land has been used by the military for over 200 years.
List of Confederate Hospitals in Richmond, VA, during the Civil War U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oakland Cemetery U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Oakwood Hebrew Cemetery 37°32′06″N 77°23′49″W / 37.5349492°N 77.3969147°W / 37.5349492; -77.3969147