Vermont Veterans Home Cemetery

GPS Coordinates: 42.887711, -73.194228
County: Bennington
Record count: 27

Ownership: State of Vermont, Vermont Veterans Home

Directions: Located adjacent to the veterans home, next to the parking lot.

Background: The original estate that houses the Vermont Veterans' Home was constructed in 1860. In 1884, recognizing the need to care for veterans disabled in the Civil War, the State General Assembly appointed Trustees of a Soldiers’ Home and authorized a $10,000 appropriation as initial funding. The first of twenty-five residents were admitted on May 18, 1887. On April 14, 1971, the Soldiers’ Home was renamed the Vermont Veterans’ Home. Construction of a cemetery began in 1884 with one acre devoted to the burial of Civil War veterans. Expanded to 17 acres, and containing about 300 gravesites, burial is now restricted to residents of the VVH.

Burial Records

• Veterans Affairs Database, by Interment.net, April 17, 2025, (27 records)

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