Georgia
National Cemetery
2025 Mount Carmel Church Lane
Canton, GA 30114
Phone: (866) 236-8159 or (770) 479-9300
Fax: (770) 479-9311 |
Office Hours:
Monday thru Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Closed federal holidays.
Visitation Hours:
The cemetery anticipates opening in Spring 2006. |
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Burial Space: This
cemetery anticipates opening for burials in the spring of 2006.
Acreage: 774.89
Number of
Interments Thru Fiscal Year 2005: 0
General Information Kiosk on Site? No
Floral/Ground Regulations: This
Cemetery's Regulations |
Directions
from nearest airport:
Directions
from I-75: Take exit 290 (Highway 20) toward Canton (east). Travel
eight miles, turn left on Highway 108, then immediately turn right
onto Mount Carmel Church Lane, cemetery entrance will be at the
end of the road.
Directions
from I-575: If traveling north, take exit 16 bearing to the left.
If traveling south, take exit 16A. At traffic light, turn left onto
Highway 5 and 20 – get into the right through lane which leads
you onto Highway 20 (Knox Bridge Road). Travel approximately seven
miles, turning right on Highway 108, then immediately turn right
onto Mount Carmel Church Lane, cemetery entrance will be at the
end of the road. |
GENERAL INFORMATION
The new 775-acre
national cemetery in western Cherokee County, Ga., will serve veterans
for the next 50 years.
The property on which the future cemetery rests was donated by Scott Hudgens,
the late Atlanta World War II veteran, land developer and philanthropist.
The site lies midway between Cartersville and Canton, near the Etowah
River, offering views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Lake Allatoona.
VA expects to open
the new cemetery for burials in Spring 2006 with a patriotic ceremony,
even though not all of the cemetery structures will be completed by that
time. This “early turn over” plan is aimed at serving as many
of the region’s aging veterans as quickly as possible. During the
“early turn over,” grave space will be available for casketed
remains and in-ground burial of cremated remains in a small-scale development
separate from the major phase one construction project.
J. M. Wilkerson Construction
Company, Inc., of Marietta, Ga., was awarded the construction contract
in December 2004. In addition to an entrance area, an information center,
administration and maintenance building, public restrooms, flag plaza,
shelters for committal services, the project will include a total of 29,000
full-casket gravesites, 3,000 in-ground sites for cremation remains and
3,000 columbaria niches for cremation remains.
Burial arrangements
will be made after death, as with all national cemeteries. VA does not
reserve grave space. Veterans or spouses wishing to be buried in national
cemeteries should have the veteran’s military separation papers
available to establish eligibility, which requires an other-than-dishonorable
discharge. Dependent children may also be buried.
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HISTORICAL
INFORMATION
Under Development
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NOTABLE
BURIALS
Under Development
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FLORAL/GROUNDS
REGULATIONS
Under Development
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