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Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego, San Diego County

Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery

Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is one of seven national cemeteries established between World War I and World War II. Fort Rosecrans grew out of the Post Cemetery that was established as part of the San Diego Barracks. The first burial in the Post Cemetery was in October 1879; the remains of soldiers of the First Dragoons who died in the Battle of San Pasqual on December 1846 were reinterred there in 1882. When the Army reestablished the San Diego Barracks as Fort Rosecrans in 1899, the cemetery adopted the new post name: Fort Rosecrans Post Cemetery. When the War Department established Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in 1934, its boundaries incorporated the existing Post Cemetery. Covering approximately 82-acres, the cemetery maintains over 110,000 interments. The Cemetery is a registered California Historical Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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San Diego, San Diego County
Photographer: Al Russell