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Arlington National Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the United States National Cemetery System, one of two maintained by the United States Army. Over 400,000 people are buried in its 639 acres (259 ha) in Arlington County, Virginia .
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum (733 acres (2.97 km 2)) is a nonprofit rural cemetery and arboretum located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.It is the third largest cemetery in the United States, after the Calverton National Cemetery and Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery [2] and is recognized as a US National Historic Landmark.
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [1] By the end of 1862, 12 national cemeteries had been established. [2]
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Chicago. Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip. Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island (listed on the cemetery National Registry in 1994) Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington. German Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth.
The Myles Standish Burial Ground (also known as Old Burying Ground or Standish Cemetery) in Duxbury, Massachusetts is, according to the American Cemetery Association, the oldest maintained cemetery in the United States. The 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) burying ground is the final resting place of several well-known Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower ...
May 27, 2003. Mount Auburn Cemetery, located in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, is the first rural or garden cemetery in the United States. It is the burial site of many prominent Boston Brahmins, and is a National Historic Landmark. Dedicated in 1831 and set with classical monuments in a rolling landscaped terrain, [ 2 ] it marked a ...
Cave Hill Cemetery is a 296-acre (1.20 km 2) Victorian era National Cemetery and arboretum located at Louisville, Kentucky. Its main entrance is on Baxter Avenue and there is a secondary one on Grinstead Drive. It is the largest cemetery by area and number of burials in Louisville. Cave Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic ...
Hart Island contains New York City's 131-acre (0.53 km 2) potter's field, or public cemetery. The potter's field is variously described as the largest tax-funded cemetery in the United States, [66] the largest-such in the world, [47] [67] and one of the largest mass graves in the United States.