The Massachusetts Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Agawam is a veterans cemetery in Agawam, Massachusetts, opened in May 2001.
It is located at 1390 Main Street, next to Six Flags New England, and serves veterans and their spouses from Western Massachusetts.
Arrangements by the Massachusetts Department of Veterans' Services to establish the cemetery began in 1996, and a formal groundbreaking ceremony took place on October 8, 1997.
The 61-acre cemetery officially opened on May 21, 2001, with enough space for approximately 50,000 graves. The first veteran buried was Air Force technical sergeant Robert L. LaRue, on May 23.
The Agawam state veterans cemetery is the first of two established in Massachusetts. The other â the Massachusetts Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Winchendon â opened in 2004.