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HISTORY


In 1897 , Congress established the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Danville, and the next year the cemetery was established on a small plot of land nearby to inter those veterans who died while under care in the facility. In 1901 a new cemetery was plotted, and the interments were all moved to their current location. It was transferred to the National Cemetery system in 1973 .

Danville National Cemetery was listed on the National Register Of Historic Places in 1992 .


NOTABLE MONUMENTS


  • The Soldiers Monument, a granite base with a bronze statue of a Civil War soldier holding a musket, dedicated in 1917 .



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