Cemetery at U.S. National Leprosarium

The cemetery on the campus of the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center has many graves dating to the opening of the Carville Center in 1894. Many of the names are aliases, due to the stigma attached to Hansen's Disease ...

National Cemetery/British Barracks

The Spanish first constructed this building along the edge of the walled city for use as Franciscan monastery during 1577. Following the end of the Seven Years War in 1763, the British occupied St. Augustine converting the building for use ...

Bakersfield National Cemetery

Dedicated to the Memory of

All the Patriotic Men and Women

Who Answered Their Country's Call to Service

George W. Bush

President of the United States

James B. Peake

Secretary

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

William F. Tuerk

Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs

National Cemetery Administration

Marker is on East Bear ...

Andrew Johnson National Cemetery

Andrew Johnson chose to be buried atop this hill, then known as “Signal Hill,” which he owned. His family members continued to be buried here in the family plot until his great-granddaughter’s interment in 1992. The cemetery became part of ...

Mexico City National Cemetery

The Mexico City National Cemetery was established in 1851 by Congress to gather the American dead of the Mexican War that lay in the nearby fields and to provide burial space for Americans that died in the vicinity. A small ...

Tompkinsville National Cemetery

In 1861, during Civil War, land was donated by J.B. Evans for burial of Union soldiers. By end of the war, it contained 115 troops who died in this region. Due to small size and remote location, most soldiers moved ...

National Historic Landmark-Green-Wood Cemetery

National Historical Landmark-Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery, established in 1838, was the largest and most varied of the early American rural cemeteries. Its scale, diverse topography, and intended civic prominence made it the prototype for how a cemetery with Picturesque landscaping could ...

National Historic Landmark - Rohwer Relocation Cemetery

Rohwer Relocation Camp was constructed in the late summer and early fall of 1942 as a result of Executive Order 9066 (February 16, 1942). Under this order, over 110,000 Japanese aliens and Japan-Americans were relocated from the three Pacific Coast ...

National Historic Landmark - Spring Grove Cemetery

National Historic Landmark - Spring Grove Cemetery

Spring Grove Cemetery is nationally significant as the original site and model for the landscape-lawn concept, the dominant trend in American cemetery design from the mid-nineteenth century until well into the 20th century.

Spring ...

National Historic Landmark-Laurel Hill Cemetery

National Historic Landmark-Laurel Hill Cemetery

Designed by noted Scottish-American architect John Notman in 1836, Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery is the second major rural cemetery in the United States, and Notman's first known commission.

Its romantic landscape, commemorative monuments, and eclectic architecture ...