With all the discussion / controversy over the Confederate monuments in Baltimore, let me to to look more into Baltimore's various monuments and I found the website, Monument City Blog (MCB). Per their site, "Monument City is a human-scale geotagging project. We’re riding our bikes around Baltimore City to document historical monuments, memorials and markers with GPS, photos and other first-person data."
I started with some the Confederate memorials that the city, but am now expanding to others.
This one is important to me since my dad was a retired DC firefighter.
Per the MCB...This monument dates from 1990 and is by artist Tylden Streett, who taught for a time at the Maryland Institute College of Art and was also responsible for the statue of Capt. John O’Donnell in Canton Square. The monument is dedicated to all members of the Baltimore City Fire Department, past, present and future. Erected by the Baltimore City Firefighter’s Monument Committee, the statue cost some $150,000, much of which was raised by private donations.
The statue stands at the north-east corner of War Memorial Plaza, outside of the plaza proper. A sister memorial to Baltimore City’s police lies just to the east across the terminus of the highway, within view of the Shot Tower.
Logging Requirements:
1. Visit the site in person.
2. Post a respectful photo of your and / or your GPS at any portion of the monument.
3. Log Password - When facing the monument, there is a plaque on the side of the building facing Lexington Street. There is a map on it. What is the original name of the road that horizontally bisects the map?
I also created a few new Sighter locations in the area.