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Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is located on the Fort Rosecrans Military Reservation, 10 miles west of San Diego, California. The hilly peninsula offers picturesque vistas to the city, bay, and Pacific Ocean. It was one of seven national cemeteries created between world wars, 1934–1939.
Map of Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery Address. The Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is located at: 1700 Cabrillo Memorial Dr. San Diego, CA 92106. Visitors can find the administrative building on the right as they enter Cabrillo Memorial Dr. Map
Frequently Asked Questions and their answers can be found about burial benefits, burial allowance, what you can do to prepare for burial in a national cemetery and more.
Search the Nationwide Gravesite Locator (NGL) for burial locations of Veterans and their family members in VA national cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, various other military and Department of Interior cemeteries, and for Veterans buried in private cemeteries when the grave is marked with a government grave marker.
The VA is proud to host public Memorial Day commemoration ceremonies at more than 130 of our national cemeteries this Memorial Day weekend. Please check out the listing below to find ceremony dates and start times for a cemetery near you. Visitors are encouraged to contact the national cemetery to confirm ceremony information prior to the event.
A large resident veteran population and limited burial capacity at nearby Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery—so designated in 1934 but associated with an older post cemetery—was the impetus for building a new national cemetery in the area.
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. USS Bennington Monument and Grave Plot. The USS Bennington explosion was among the deadliest peacetime accidents in U.S. Navy history and claimed more lives than the Navy had lost in the nation's most recent conflict, the Spanish-American War. A granite monument was established to honor those lost in the Fort ...
But a rostrum of the same design is extant at nearby Poplar Grove (VA) National Cemetery, an National Park Service site. Together these structures illustrate the original octagonal rostrum developed by the Quartermaster's Department in the 1870s.
Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery adjoining the Fort Sam Houston Military Post in San Antonio, Texas, was one of seven national cemeteries established during the expansion of the National Cemetery System between the World Wars, specifically in 1934–1939.
The picturesque, approximately 82-acre Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery covers hilly terrain set along both the east and west sides of Cabrillo Memorial Drive just north of the Cabrillo National Monument on the Point Loma peninsula in San Diego, California.