Woodlawn National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery within Woodlawn Cemetery, which is in the city of Elmira, in Chemung County, New York. It encompasses 10.5 acres (4.2 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 8,693 interred remains.
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