Zachary Taylor National Cemetery

The cemetery spans 16 acres of maintained grounds with rows of white headstones marking the final resting place of military veterans and their families.

The burial ground began as a half-acre family plot on Richard Taylor's Springfield estate before expanding into a national cemetery through Congressional action in 1928.

Military personnel from Fort Knox perform an annual wreath-laying ceremony on November 24 to commemorate President Zachary Taylor's birth at his limestone mausoleum.

The cemetery contains over 14,000 interments and currently accepts only subsequent burials of veterans and eligible family members in existing grave sites.

In 1991, researchers exhumed President Taylor's remains to investigate theories about arsenic poisoning, finding traces but no evidence of deliberate assassination.

Location: Louisville

Inception: 1926

GPS coordinates: 38.27861,-85.64321

Latest update: May 11, 2025 03:37