Historical Marker
War Correspondents
Historical marker location:
Burkittsville, Maryland
( Marker is on Gapland Road near Arnoldstown Road, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1896
Memorial Arch.
Maryland was once a center of the slave trade: Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that allowed slavery, and by the mid-18th century, it had become a major center of the domestic slave trade. Maryland slave traders sold enslaved people to plantation owners in other southern colonies and to the Caribbean.