Washington Crossing National Cemetery is located approximately three miles southwest from the location where General Washington crossed the Delaware River. The cemetery is located on land that William Penn deeded to Euro-American settlers in 1698, and was used as farmland for centuries. In 2008, the Department of Veterans Affairs purchased the property from Dolington Land, L.P., a subsidiary of the homebuilding company Toll Brothers. The cemetery was formally dedicated in 2009 and opened for burials the following year. Washington Crossing National Cemetery is the fourth national cemetery established in Pennsylvania and the 131st in the national cemetery system. The cemetery is planned to serve more than 580,000 veterans and their families in Philadelphia and the five-county suburban area, Lehigh County and central New Jersey. Construction will be phased in over 50 years.

Notable Persons
Georgian Mildred J. Dalton (1914-2013) graduated from Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing and was head surgical nurse there before joining the U.S. Army. She served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1939 to 1946 at Fort Benning, then in the Philippine Islands. Already in the Pacific when the United States entered World War II, Dalton tended the wounded on the Bataan Peninsula. In May 1942 she was among 66 army nurses captured at Corregidor and sent to Santo Tomas prison camp. Despite being malnourished captives themselves, the nurses treated thousands of prisoners until Allied troops liberated them. Dalton was awarded the Bronze Star and promoted to first lieutenant. She participated in a war bond campaign to end her tour, where she met her husband, Arthur Manning. By the time of her death, Manning was known as the last "Angel of Corregidor." She is buried in Section 6, Site 1270.