The New York State Veterans Cemetery – Finger Lakes formerly known as the Sampson Veterans Memorial Cemetery occupies 162 acres along Seneca Lake in Romulus, Seneca County, and is adjacent to Sampson State Park.
The Cemetery is located at the site of the former Sampson Naval Training Station and Sampson Air Force Base, where hundreds of thousands of service members trained during World War II and the Korean War. The site later functioned as a temporary college and a separation center for service members being discharged, and officially closed in 2000.
The Cemetery is located near Waterloo, the community recognized as the birthplace of Memorial Day. The site was chosen in 2021 as the location of New York’s first State Veterans Cemetery by a committee appointed for that purpose.
Romulus, NY 14541
