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Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival

Area
  
3 ha

Year built
  
1865

NRHP Reference #
  
97000022

Phone
  
+1 252-637-2912

Added to NRHP
  
31 January 1997

Raleigh National Cemetery

Location
  
501 Rock Quarry Rd., Raleigh, North Carolina

MPS
  
Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS

Address
  
501 Rock Quarry Rd, Raleigh, NC 27610, USA

Burials
  
William Maud Bryant, Gretchen Frances Hahnen

Similar
  
Historic Oakwood, Montlawn Memorial Park, Veterans Affairs, Mt Hope Cemetery, Nc Cemetery Commissi

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Raleigh National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Raleigh in Wake County, North Carolina. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 7 acres (2.8 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 5,983 interments. It is currently closed to new interments and is maintained by New Bern National Cemetery.

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History

The cemetery was established in 1865. The cemetery lodge formerly housed the cemetery superintendents / directors. It was built in 1938, and is a two-story, six-room Colonial Revival frame building with a brick veneer and slate roof. Other contributing resources are the entrance gate, perimeter wall, rostrum, flagpole, and artillery monument. Raleigh National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Notable monuments

  • The Artillery Monument, a black iron wrought cannon mounted on a cement pedestal, erected circa 1890.
  • Notable interments

  • Sergeant First Class William Maud Bryant, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Vietnam War.
  • References

    Raleigh National Cemetery Wikipedia


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