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Georgia National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the city of Canton, in Cherokee County, Georgia.Managed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 774.9 acres (313.6 ha), and has been undergoing development with the intention of servicing the interment needs of United States military veterans and their families for the next fifty years.
Many post cemeteries have been given national cemetery status as late as 2020, which is considerably later than the original cemetery. For example, Vancouver Barracks post cemetery was established in 1849 and became a national cemetery in 2020—one of 11 cemeteries transferred from the Army to NCA in 2019–2020 per Exec. Order No. 13781, 2017 ...
Marietta National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Marietta in Cobb County, Georgia. It encompasses 23.3 acres (9.4 ha), and as of the end of 2006, had 18,742 interments. It is closed to new interments, and is now maintained by the new Georgia National Cemetery.
Georgia Capitol Dispatch: Veterans cemetery sought for Augusta, MLK's son remembered. More than 200 acres of property have been procured around the East Central Regional Hospital's Gracewood ...
Oak Hill Cemetery, Cartersville, Georgia Parkhill Cemetery , Columbus Patrick R. Cleburne Confederate Cemetery – large memorial cemetery with hundreds of unmarked confederate graves from the Civil War
The Department of Veterans Affairs provides benefits, health care, and cemetery services to military veterans. It employs nearly 371,000 health care professionals and support staff at VA medical ...
Oakland Cemetery. Confederate Obelisk, inscribed "Our Confederate Dead 1873", in the Confederate section of the cemetery. Made of Stone Mountain granite, it is the tallest object in the Cemetery. [4] In 2019 the city decided to add e marker contextualizing its continued placement on state-owned property. [12]
It was founded in 1796 in what is now Banks County, Georgia. [2] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Hebron Church, Cemetery and Academy. [3] [4] Hebron was formed by Scotch-Irish settlers and Revolutionary veterans who received land grants from the Georgia State Legislature. [5]