Golden Gate National Cemetery (San Bruno, California)

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1300 Sneath Lane
San Bruno, CA 94066
(650) 589-7737
www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/goldengate.asp

Congress authorized construction of the facility in 1937, with the first interments in 1941. The cemetery was officially dedicated on Memorial Day, May 30, 1942. Then-Attorney General Earl Warren (and later Chief Justice of the United States) was keynote speaker at the ceremony. Golden Gate is one of a large number of U.S. Army-planned cemeteries started in the 1930s and completed during the 1940s. They were designed specifically to provide abundant burial opportunities in locations around the nation in cities with very large veteran populations. Among many other notable burials here, this is the final resting place of US Navy Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz (1885-1966).

It covers about 161 acres, with about 145,000 burials.

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