Maryland State Veterans Cemetery Garrison Forest - Owings Mills MD
Posted by: Don.Morfe
N 39° 26.424 W 076° 46.008
18S E 347957 N 4367139
Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery is the most active of Maryland’s 5 Veterans Cemeteries, conducting more than 1,300 burials per year. This is the cemetery that I will be buried in. See photo of my wife's grave marker attached.
Waymark Code: WM13J8E
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 12/23/2020
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LOCATION: 11501 Garrison Forest Road, Owings Mills MD 21117
From their website:
Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery is the most active of Maryland’s 5 Veterans Cemeteries, conducting more than 1,300 burials per year. Currently, this cemetery is the second busiest State Veterans Cemetery in the nation. Since December 1983, when the facility opened, more than 37,000 veterans and their dependents have selected this cemetery as a final resting place. Five phases of cemetery development are expected to provide approximately 46,000 burial sites at this location. The Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery is located on Garrison Forest Road, near the Rosewood State Hospital, in Owings Mills, Maryland. Formerly used for agricultural purposes, the site consists of 110 acres bounded by woodlands.
Date cemetery was established: December 1, 1983
Visiting hours: 9:00AM to 4:45pm Daily
Website pertaining to the cemetery: [Web Link]
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