The cemetery started as a military post cemetery in 1887. Mabel Peterkin, the daughter of a private who was stationed at Fort Logan, was the first burial. Soldiers who served at Fort Logan and their family members are buried in the oldest part of the cemetery.
It became a National Cemetery in 1950, with the first internment as a National Cemetery was on November 1, 1950. It now contains 214 acres, with expansion planned within a few years.
There are Medal of Honor winners, as well as one German World War II prisoner of war buried there.
The cemetery is open daily and more information can be obtained by visiting the Administration Building on the grounds.
If you go to the driveway on the north end of the cemetery, you will find grave markers of the original cemetery when it was operated on the fort’s grounds.