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| Year established | 1903 |
| Country | United States |
| Location | Johnson City, Tennessee |
| Type | United States National Cemetery |
| Size | 99.7 acres (40.3 ha) |
| Number of graves | 12,000 |
Mountain Home National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Mountain Home, within Johnson City in Washington County, Tennessee. It encompasses 99.7 acres (403,000 m2), and as of the end of 2005, had 12,129 interments.
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On the grounds of the Mountain Home Veterans Administration Center, the cemetery was established in 1903 as part of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, a federal old soldiers' home. The cemetery features over 12,000 graves highlighted by a monument to Congressman Walter Preston Brownlow, who petitioned the government and worked tirelessly to have the veteran's center created. It officially became a National Cemetery in 1973, and has primarily the interments of veterans who died while under care at the facility.