Master Plan

Metropolitan Atlanta is home to over 400,000 of Georgia's veterans. In response to a need for additional burial sites, a 775-acre site in North Georgia is being developed as the Georgia National Cemetery.

The site is located in the mountains adjacent to Lake Allatoona between Cartersville and Canton and offers panoramic views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Lake Allatoona.

The Jaeger Company, as part of the design team, will assist in the master planning and preliminary design phases in the development of this site. The master plan guides the first phase, which will include an entrance area, information center, administration and maintenance building, public restrooms, flag plaza, shelters for committal services, and site work such as roadway and irrigation systems.

The Department of Veterans Affairs expects to open the new cemetery for burials in early 2004.

The Jaeger Company is responsible for the planting design element of the project. The intent is to retain the native plant communities existing on the site and to use an exclusively indigenous palette in re-landscaping the more formal areas of the site.