Augusta To Break Ground on Veterans Cemetery with $150M Federal Funding

Augusta will break ground on a veterans cemetery at the end of 2026. Federal funding was secured. The cemetery will be built on land behind East Central Regional Hospital near Tobacco and Peach Orchard roads. The cemetery should take about a year to finish once construction begins.

The project received a boost from $150 million included in a bipartisan funding bill for building veterans cemeteries, according to WRDW. That money freed up the proposal, which had been stuck on the Department of Veterans Affairs' priority list without enough funding to move forward.

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff stepped up his efforts to bring a U.S. veterans cemetery to the area in recent weeks. Those efforts came a few weeks before the funding announcement.

The cemetery has been under discussion for years before this week's announcement. Construction is set to begin in late 2026. The facility should be ready for use by late 2027 or early 2028, based on the one-year construction timeline.