{"nrhp_refnum":"98001170","name":"Marietta National Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"500 Washington Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Marietta","county":"Cobb County","state":"GA","lat":33.95125333650006,"lon":-84.54090001789416,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-09-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Marietta National Cemetery is a 23.2-acre Civil War-era national cemetery at 500 Washington Avenue in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, established in 1866 on land donated by Henry G. Cole.","why_significant":"The cemetery was created after the Atlanta Campaign to hold Union soldiers gathered from battlefields and smaller burial grounds across Georgia and from a discontinued cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama. It is significant under the Military area for its role in Civil War burial and commemoration. Its period of significance runs from establishment in 1866 through the 1940 rostrum construction.","narrative":"Marietta National Cemetery occupies 23.2 acres of rolling land in Marietta, Georgia, about 20 miles northwest of Atlanta, with a central hill and views toward Kennesaw Mountain. It was established in 1866 on land donated by Henry G. Cole, a Marietta citizen who stayed loyal to the Union. Soldiers who died on battlefields from Resaca to Kennesaw and Atlanta were reburied here, along with remains moved from Montgomery, Alabama, and several Georgia towns. The first burials included 225 United States Colored Troops. The grounds hold a rubble stone perimeter wall, a granite entrance arch built in 1883, a 1921 stucco lodge, a utility building, and a 1940 white marble rostrum modeled on a Greek temple. Monuments include the Twentieth Army Corps memorial of 1870 and a Wisconsin granite shaft dedicated in 1925. The cemetery closed to new burials in 1970 apart from reserved graves and cremated remains. Its significance lies in Civil War military history and the commemoration of Union dead.","period_of_significance":"1866-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"The cemetery closed to new burials in 1970, except for occupied and reserved graves and cremated remains. As of June 30, 1998, 248 gravesites remained available for casketed remains, 247 of them reserved.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:43.579881-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_AL/98001170.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001170/fecbe9c668-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001170/fecbe9c668-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"HowardSF at English Wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MariettaNationalCemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">HowardSF at English Wikipedia</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MariettaNationalCemetery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77835029","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marietta_National_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6763242"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/cobb-county/marietta-national-cemetery-98001170/"}