Togus National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Togus, a facility operated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs at Chelsea in Kennebec County, Maine. It encompasses 31.2 acres (12.6 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 5,373 interments. It is closed to new interments.
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