National War Correspondents Memorial
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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]