Fort Bragg Main Post Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 35.152020, -78.964921
County: Cumberland
Record count: 4,897

Ownership: Office of Army Cemeteries, U.S. Army

Directions: Located within the boundaries of Fort Bragg Army Post, along the eastern border, the cemetery sits on the south-west corner of R Miller St and Highway 210.

Background: Fort Bragg Main Post Cemetery was established during the 1918 influenza pandemic for interments of civilian workers (mostly Puerto Rican) whose remains, for a number of reasons, could not be shipped home. Between world wars, Fort Bragg was an artillery base and the cemetery was mainly used for the burial of dependents. In 1940 Fort Bragg was designated as a Reception Station, and in 1942 became major airborne training site. A number of interments from that period were from training accidents. There are also several German POWs interred (Row 26) who either died accidentally or from disease. After the war, the cemetery took on its main responsibility as a veterans' cemetery for the central North Carolina area. The cemetery was closed to new interments after the nearby Sandhills State Veterans Cemetery in Spring Lake was established in the 1990s.

Burial Records

• View All Transcriptions Combined, 4,897 records
  • Office of Army Cemeteries, by Interment.net, September 5, 2026, (3,479 records)
  • Veterans Affairs Database, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (1,418 records)

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