Established 1863 Country United States Size 64.6 acres (26.1 ha) Area 26 ha Phone +1 215-504-5610 | Location Beverly, New Jersey Type Military Veterans Founded 1863 Year built 1864 | |
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Owned by US Department of Veterans Affairs Address 916 Bridgeboro Rd, Beverly, NJ 08010, USA Similar Knoxville National Cemetery, Little Rock National Cemetery, Culpeper National Cemetery, Marietta National Cemetery, Salisbury National Cemetery | ||
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Beverly National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Beverly, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 64.6 acres (26.1 ha), and as of the end of 2008, had over 49,000 interments.
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History
The original cemetery was only a single acre off of Beverly's Monument Cemetery, purchased from a local resident in 1863 for the purpose of interring Union Army casualties who died in the Beverly United States Army hospital (run for the duration of the Civil War). Additional land was acquired in 1936, 1937, 1948, and 1951. It served as a burial ground only for those veterans who died in nearby hospitals, until space in the nearby Philadelphia National Cemetery became limited, and many interments that would have been made there were made at Beverly instead. Beverly National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.