ABD first told you about a plan last December to establish a cemetery in Augusta like the one pictured above from Milledgeville, Georgia. We got the word late yesterday that the $13.6 million dollar deal is done.
According to a news release, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Cemetery Administration (NCA) awarded a grant of up to $13,610,908 to the State of Georgia for the establishment of Georgia Memorial Veterans Cemetery in Augusta.
The new cemetery will serve Veterans and their eligible family members of the Augusta region. The grant will fund the construction of an administration building, maintenance building with a covered wash bay, committal service shelter, an assembly area, 600 full casketed gravesites, 1,500 pre-placed crypts, 900 in-ground cremation gravesites, 960 columbarium niches, a memorial wall with 140 memorial wall plaques, an entry feature, roadways, landscape, irrigation, site furnishings and supporting infrastructure.
“These grants enable the states to better serve Veterans and their families where they live,” said VA Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs Sam Brown. “Because of this program, more than 94% of Veterans living in the United States have access to the burial benefits they have earned at a cemetery within 75 miles of where they live.”
For more information about the Georgia Memorial Veterans Cemetery in Augusta, contact Cemetery Director Ernie Cowart at 912-654-7144 or ecowart@vs.ga.gov.
To learn about the journey it took to get to this day, read Dana Lynn McIntyre’s story from December 2025 here.
