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| x Arlington National Cemetery |
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Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general...
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| x Gettysburg National Cemetery |
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The Gettysburg National Cemetery is a Gettysburg Battlefield site designated as a district of the Gettysburg National Military Park. Originating as an 1863 state-owned "national cemetery" with Union reinterments from Battle of Gettysburg graves, the...
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| x Calverton National Cemetery |
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Calverton National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in eastern Long Island, the hamlet of Wading River, the Town of Riverhead in Suffolk County, New York. It encompasses 1,045 acres (423 ha) and as of the end of 2008 had 212,000...
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Suffolk County | |
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| x Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery |
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Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is situated in the city of San Diego, California, on the Fort Rosecrans Military Reservation. The cemetery is located approximately 10 miles west of downtown San Diego, overlooking the bay and the city. Fort...
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| x Golden Gate National Cemetery |
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Golden Gate National Cemetery is a U.S. National Cemetery, located in the city of San Bruno, San Mateo County, 12 miles (19 km) south of San Francisco. Because of the name and location, it is frequently confused with San Francisco National Cemetery,...
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San Mateo County | |
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| x Zachary Taylor National Cemetery |
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Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, located at 4701 Brownsboro Road (US-42), in northeast Louisville, Kentucky (near Saint Matthews, Kentucky) is a national cemetery where former President of the United States Zachary Taylor and his first lady...
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| x Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery |
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Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is an American military cemetery located in Saint Louis County, Missouri, just on the banks of the Mississippi River. The cemetery was established after the American Civil War in an attempt to put together a...
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Missouri | |
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| x Chalmette National Cemetery |
Chalmette National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located within Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Chalmette, Louisiana. The cemetery is a 17.5-acre (7.1 ha) plot adjacent to the site that once was the battleground...
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St. Bernard Parish | ||
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| x Riverside National Cemetery |
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Riverside National Cemetery (RNC) is a cemetery located in Riverside, California, dedicated to the interment of United States military personnel. The cemetery covers 921 acres (373 ha), making it the third-largest cemetery managed by the National...
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Riverside County | |
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| x Fort Logan National Cemetery |
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Fort Logan National Cemetery is a National cemetery in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Fort Logan was named after Union General John A. Logan, commander of US Volunteer forces during the American Civil War. It contains 214 acres (87 ha) and has had 95,905...
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Denver | |
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| x Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery |
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Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located on Fort Leavenworth, a United States Army installation north of Leavenworth, Kansas. It was officially established in 1862, but was used as a burial ground as early as...
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| Leavenworth County | ||||
| x Biloxi National Cemetery |
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Biloxi National Cemetery is a U.S. National Cemetery that is located in Biloxi, Mississippi on the grounds of the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC), near Keesler Air Force Base. It occupies approximately 54 acres (22 ha), and is...
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| x Alexandria National Cemetery |
Alexandria National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery, of approximately 5.5 acres (2.2 ha), located in the city of Alexandria, Virginia. It is one of the original national cemeteries that were established in 1862. As of the end of 2005,...
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| x Alexandria National Cemetery |
Alexandria National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Pineville, in Rapides Parish, Louisiana. It occupies approximately 8 acres (3.2 ha), and is site to 10,164 interments as of the end of 2005.
In 1867, an 8-acre ...
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Louisiana | ||
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| x Camp Butler National Cemetery |
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Camp Butler National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located a few miles northeast of Springfield and a few miles southwest of Riverton, a small town nearby to Springfield, in Sangamon County, Illinois. It was named for Illinois State...
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| x Indiantown Gap National Cemetery |
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Indiantown Gap National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Union Township, in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It occupies approximately 677 acres (2.74 km), and is site to 26,323 interments, as of the end of 2005.
Indiantown Gap...
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Lebanon County | |
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| x Woodlawn National Cemetery |
Woodlawn National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of Elmira, in Chemung County, New York. It encompasses 10.5 acres (4.2 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 8,693 interred remains.
In 1861, Camp Rathbun, near the town of...
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| x Annapolis National Cemetery |
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Annapolis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Annapolis, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It encompasses 4.1 acres (1.7 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 2,994 interments. It is operated and maintained by...
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| Anne Arundel County | ||||
| x Baltimore National Cemetery |
Baltimore National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located along Maryland Route 144 on both sides of the boundary between the neighborhoods of Beechfield in Baltimore City and Catonsville in Baltimore County. It encompasses 72.2 acres ...
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Baltimore County | ||
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| x Alton National Cemetery |
Alton National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Alton, in Madison County, Illinois. It encompasses only half an acre plot of land, and as of the end of 2005, had 522 interments. It is maintained by the Jefferson...
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Madison County | ||
| 62002 | ||||
| x Springfield National Cemetery |
Springfield National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Springfield, in Greene County, Missouri. It encompasses 18.1 acres (7.3 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 14,685 interments.
Established in 1867 as a place...
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| x Balls Bluff National Cemetery |
Balls Bluff National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located just northeast of the town of Leesburg, in Loudoun County, Virginia. It encompasses 4.6 acres (19,000 m) of land surrounded by Ball's Bluff Battlefield Regional Park, and as...
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| x Culpeper National Cemetery |
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Culpeper National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the town of Culpeper, in Culpeper County, Virginia. It encompasses 29.6 acres (120,000 m) of land, and as of the end of 2005, had 9,880 interments.
During the American Civil...
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| x Los Angeles National Cemetery |
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The Los Angeles National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in West Los Angeles, California, located at the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Sepulveda Boulevard. The cemetery was dedicated on May 22, 1889. Interred on its 114 acres ...
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Los Angeles County | |
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| x Leavenworth National Cemetery |
Leavenworth National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Leavenworth, Kansas. It occupies 128.8 acres (52.1 ha) of land. As of the end of 2005 it had 30,875 interments. It is sometimes locally referred to as "Old...
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Leavenworth County | ||
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| x Barrancas National Cemetery |
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Barrancas National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Naval Air Station Pensacola, in the city of Pensacola, Florida. It encompasses 94.9 acres (38.4 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 32,643 interments.
The area has been used...
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| x Bath National Cemetery |
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Bath National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located the village of Bath, in Steuben County, New York. It encompasses 28.9 acres (117,000 m²), and as of the end of 2005, had 13,048 interments.
The area was originally part of the New...
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Steuben County | |
| 14810 | ||||
| x Baton Rouge National Cemetery |
Baton Rouge National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in East Baton Rouge Parish, in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It encompasses 7.7 acres (3.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 5,459 interments.
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| Baton Rouge | ||||
| x Bay Pines National Cemetery |
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Bay Pines National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Pinellas County, northwest of the city of St. Petersburg, Florida. It encompasses 27.3 acres (11.0 ha), and as of the end of 2008, had 27,369 interments.
Bay Pines address...
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| x Beaufort National Cemetery |
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Beaufort National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Beaufort County, in the city of Beaufort, South Carolina. It encompasses 33.1 acres (13.4 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 18,511 interments.
The original interments in...
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| x Beverly National Cemetery |
Beverly National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Beverly, in Burlington County, New Jersey. It encompasses 64.6 acres (26.1 ha), and as of the end of 2008, had 49,080 interments.
The original cemetery was only a...
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| Burlington County | ||||
| x Philadelphia National Cemetery |
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The Philadelphia National Cemetery is a cemetery in Pennsylvania north of Germantown managed by the National Cemetery Administration from offices at the Washington Crossing National Cemetery. In addition to a Revolutionary War Memorial, the cemetery...
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| x Black Hills National Cemetery |
Black Hills National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located south of the city of Sturgis in Meade County, South Dakota. It encompasses 105.9 acres (42.9 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 19,147 interments.
The area around the Black...
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Meade County | ||
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| x Camp Nelson National Cemetery |
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Camp Nelson National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in southern Jessamine County, Kentucky. It was originally a graveyard associated with the U.S. Army's Camp Nelson, which was active during the U.S. Civil War and its...
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| Nicholasville | ||||
| x Chattanooga National Cemetery |
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Chattanooga National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the center of the city of Chattanooga in Hamilton County, Tennessee. It encompasses 120.9 acres (48.9 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 43,534 interments.
The cemetery...
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| x Hot Springs National Cemetery |
Hot Springs National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of Hot Springs in Fall River County, South Dakota. It encompasses 8.7 acres (3.5 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 1,484 interments. It is administered by the Black...
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Fall River County | ||
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| x City Point National Cemetery |
City Point National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the community of City Point within the city of Hopewell, Virginia. It encompasses 6.7 acres (2.7 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 6,909 interments. It is administered by Hampton...
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| x Hampton National Cemetery |
Hampton National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of Hampton, Virginia. It encompasses 27.1 acres (11.0 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 27,799 interments.
The first burials took place in the cemetery in 1862, and were...
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| x Willamette National Cemetery |
Willamette National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of the city of Portland, Oregon. The cemetery encompasses 269.4 acres (109.0 ha) straddling the county line between Multnomah and Clackamas...
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| x Tahoma National Cemetery |
Tahoma National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of Kent, in King County, Washington. It encompasses 158.3 acres (64.1 ha), and as of the end of 2008, had 23,479 interments compared to 15,924 interments in 2005. It is the...
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| x Santa Fe National Cemetery |
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Santa Fe National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of Santa Fe, in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. It encompasses 78.6 acres (31.8 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 39,695 interments. It is one of only two national cemeteries...
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Santa Fe County | |
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| x Fort Bayard National Cemetery |
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Fort Bayard National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the Fort Bayard Historic District, near Silver City, New Mexico. It encompasses 18.8 acres (7.6 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 3,732 interments. It is one of only two...
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Grant County | |
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| x Fort Bliss National Cemetery |
Fort Bliss National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the United States Army post of Fort Bliss, in El Paso, Texas. It encompasses 82.1 acres (33.2 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 42,141 interments.
Fort Bliss itself was...
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| x Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery |
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Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Dallas, Texas (USA). It encompasses 638.4 acres (258.4 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 13,166 interments.
Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery was...
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Dallas County | |
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| x Puerto Rico National Cemetery |
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Puerto Rico National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Bayamón, in the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It encompasses 108.2 acres (43.8 ha) of land, and as of the end of 2005, had 44,722 interments. It is the only...
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| Bayamón | ||||
| San Juan | ||||
| x Houston National Cemetery |
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Houston National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of Houston in Harris County, Texas. It encompasses 419.2 acres (169.6 ha) only about half of which is developed. The cemetery had 67,793 interments as of the end of 2008....
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Harris County | |
| 77038 | ||||
| x Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery |
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Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of San Antonio in Bexar County, Texas. It encompasses 154.7 acres (62.6 ha), and as of the end of 2008, had 120,982 interments.
Although the Army post in the area...
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Bexar County | |
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| x San Antonio National Cemetery |
San Antonio National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of San Antonio in Bexar County, Texas. It encompasses 3.7 acres (1.5 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 3,163 interments.
San Antonio National Cemetery was a part of the...
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| x Cold Harbor National Cemetery |
Cold Harbor National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in Mechanicsville, Hanover County, Virginia. It encompasses 1.4 acres (5,700 m), and as of the end of 2005, had 2,110 interments. It is administered by the Hampton National Cemetery....
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| Hanover County | ||||
| x Corinth National Cemetery |
Corinth National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of Corinth, in Alcorn County, Mississippi. It encompasses 20 acres (8.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 7,137 interments. It is administered by the Little Rock National...
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| Alcorn County | ||||
| x Crown Hill National Cemetery |
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Crown Hill National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Indianapolis in Marion County, Indiana. It encompasses 1.4 acres (0.57 ha) of Crown Hill Cemetery, and as of the end of 2005, had 795 interments. It is...
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| Indianapolis | ||||
| x Marion National Cemetery |
Marion National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Marion in Grant County, Indiana. It encompasses 45.1 acres (18.3 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 8,269 interments.
In 1888, Colonel George W. Steele, Indiana’s...
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Grant County | ||
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| x Cypress Hills National Cemetery |
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Cypress Hills National Cemetery is the only United States National Cemetery in New York City and has more than 21,100 interments of veterans and civilians. There are 24 Medal of Honor recipients buried in the cemetery, including three men who won...
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| Kings County | ||||
| x Long Island National Cemetery |
Long Island National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Suffolk County, New York. Its mailing address is Farmingdale. It is within the CDPS of Wyandanch, in the Town of Babylon, and Melville in the Town of Huntington. It...
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| x Fort Lyon National Cemetery |
Fort Lyon National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the city of Las Animas in Bent County, Colorado. It encompasses 51.9 acres (21.0 hectares) and as of the end of 2005 had 2,069 interments. It is administered by the Fort...
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| x Eagle Point National Cemetery |
Eagle Point National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located just east of Eagle Point, Jackson County of the U.S. state of Oregon. It is about 14 miles (20 km) northeast of Medford.
It encompasses 43.4 acres (17.6 ha), and at the end...
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Jackson County | ||
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| x Fort McPherson National Cemetery |
Fort McPherson National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery, located 4 miles (6 km) south of the village of Maxwell in Lincoln County, Nebraska. It encompasses 20 acres (8.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, it had 8,355 interments.
Fort...
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Lincoln County | ||
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| x Fort Custer National Cemetery |
Fort Custer National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located just outside of the Village of Augusta in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. It encompasses 770.4 acres (311.8 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 20,656 interments.
Named for...
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Kalamazoo County | ||
| 49012 | ||||
| x Florence National Cemetery |
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Florence National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Florence, South Carolina. It encompasses 24.9 acres (10.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 8,853 interments.
The cemetery was originally created on land...
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| x Finn's Point National Cemetery |
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Finn's Point National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Pennsville, New Jersey in Salem County, New Jersey. It encompasses 4.6 acres (1.9 ha), and as of February 2009, had 3,033 interments. Adjacent to Fort Mott, it is...
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Salem County | |
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