The National War Correspondents Memorial, part of Gathland State Park, is a memorial dedicated to journalists who died in war. It is located at Crampton's Gap at South Mountain,[1] near Burkittsville, Maryland, in the United States.
Civil War correspondent George Alfred Townsend, or "Gath", built the arch in 1896,[2] and it was dedicated October 16, 1896.[1]
It is claimed that the arch is the only monument in the world dedicated to journalists killed in combat.[3][4] However, a tree in Arlington National Cemetery was also dedicated as a war correspondents' memorial in 1986.[5]
- ^ a b "War Correspondents Memorial Arch". National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved December 11, 2012.
- ^ "The Civil War Correspondents Memorial Arch: George Alfred Townsend". Retrieved December 11, 2012.
- ^ "Prelude to great struggle at Antietam". Western Maryland History Online (whilbr.org). Retrieved January 9, 2007.
- ^ "War Correspondents Memorial Arch, Crampton's Gap, Maryland". Office of the Maryland Secretary of State. Archived from the original on October 13, 2006. Retrieved January 9, 2007.
- ^ Journalists At Risk: Reporting America's Wars, p. 9, George Sullivan, Twentieth Century Books, 2005 [ISBN missing]. In addition, there are at least two prominent US monuments more broadly commemorating journalists killed in combat or otherwise in the line of duty – the Overseas Press Club Memorial Press Center building in New York City which was dedicated in 1954 [1]; and the Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial in Freedom Park, Arlington, Virginia, dedicated in 1996 [2]. The Journalists Memorial monument with a similar broad dedication and purportedly the first of its kind in Europe, was inaugurated by Reporters Without Borders in Bayeux, France in 2006 [3]