The Grand Rapids Veterans Home Cemetery was dedicated by the Grand Rapids Post of the Grand Army of the Republic on Memorial Day 1886. Currently, 5,042 veterans and their families are interred there. It is one of four veterans cemeteries in the State of Michigan.
The old entrance to the Veterans’ Cemetery
Flags are placed on the graves each year by the Boy Scouts.
Time and weather take their toll on the markers, blurring the names and details of the soldiers.