Editing Walt Whitman (section)

===Namesake recognition===
[[File:20241017 1whitma71325.jpg|thumb|Walt Whitman service area in New Jersey]]
[[File:Walt Whitman Monument at the Walt Whitman Bridge Entrance.jpg|thumb|upright=1|The [[Walt Whitman (Davidson)|Whitman statue]] at the entrance to the [[Walt Whitman Bridge]]. The bridge connects [[Philadelphia]] and [[South Jersey]] and is one of the longest bridges on the [[East Coast of the United States|U.S. East Coast]].]]
Whitman's importance in American culture is reflected in schools, roads, rest stops, and bridges named after him. Among them are the [[Walt Whitman High School (Bethesda, Maryland)|Walt Whitman High School]] in [[Bethesda, Maryland]] and [[Walt Whitman High School (Huntington Station, New York)|Walt Whitman High School]] on [[Long Island]], [[Syosset Central School District|Walt Whitman Elementary School]] ([[Woodbury, Nassau County, New York|Woodbury, New York]]), Walt Whitman Boulevard ([[Cherry Hill, New Jersey]]), and a service area on the [[New Jersey Turnpike]] in [[Cherry Hill, New Jersey|Cherry Hill]], to name a few.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

The [[Walt Whitman Bridge]], which crosses the [[Delaware River]] between [[Philadelphia]] and [[Gloucester City, New Jersey]] near Whitman's home in Camden, New Jersey, was opened on May 16, 1957.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.drpa.org/bridges/bridges_ww.html|title=Walt Whitman Bridge|publisher=Delaware River Port Authority of Pennsylvania and New Jersey|date=2013|access-date=December 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112190012/http://www.drpa.org/bridges/bridges_ww.html|archive-date=November 12, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> A [[Walt Whitman (Davidson)|statue of Whitman]] by [[Jo Davidson]] is located at the entrance to the Walt Whitman Bridge and another casting resides in the [[Bear Mountain State Park]]. The controversy that surrounded the naming of the Walt Whitman bridge has been documented in a series of letters from members of the public, which are held in the University of Pennsylvania library.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Delaware River Port Authority records on the naming of the Walt Whitman Bridge |url=https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_RBML_PUSP.MS.COLL.1043 |access-date=July 17, 2023 |website=Philadelphia Area Archives |series=Ms. Coll 1043}}</ref> The web page about this matter states: "The bridge was meant to be named after a person of note who had lived in New Jersey, but some area citizens opposed the name 'Walt Whitman Bridge'.... Many objecting to the choice of his name for the bridge saw Whitman's work as sympathizing with communist ideals and criticized him for his egalitarian view of humanity."<ref name=":1" />

In 1997, the [[Walt Whitman Community School]] in [[Dallas]] opened, becoming the first private high school catering to LGBT youth.<ref name="Jetp12">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=szsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12|title=Jet|date=September 22, 1997|publisher=Johnson Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref> His other namesakes include the [[Walt Whitman Shops]] in [[Huntington Station, New York]], near his birthplace, and Walt Whitman Road, which spans Huntington Station to [[Melville, New York|Melville]] on Long Island.<ref>{{Cite web | last=A Simon Mall|first=Simon Property Group|title=Walt Whitman Shops®|url=https://www.simon.com/mall/walt-whitman-shops|access-date=January 9, 2022|website=www.simon.com|language=en-us|archive-date=January 9, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109221654/https://www.simon.com/mall/walt-whitman-shops|url-status=live}}</ref>

Whitman was inducted into the [[New Jersey Hall of Fame]] in 2009,<ref>[https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090202/ap_en_mu/people_nj_hall_of_fame;_ylt=AlZVKwTMpyR6gahss6B1PmtxFb8C New Jersey to Bon Jovi: You Give Us a Good Name] Yahoo News, February 2, 2009.</ref> and, in 2013, he was inducted into the [[Legacy Walk]], an outdoor public display in Chicago that celebrates [[LGBT]] history and people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chicagophoenix.com/2013/10/12/boystown-unveils-new-legacy-walk-lgbt-history-plaques/|title=Boystown unveils new Legacy Walk LGBT history plaques|work=Chicago Phoenix|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313200751/http://chicagophoenix.com/2013/10/12/boystown-unveils-new-legacy-walk-lgbt-history-plaques|archive-date=March 13, 2016}}</ref>

A coed [[Camp Walt Whitman|summer camp]] founded in 1948 in [[Piermont, New Hampshire]], is named after Whitman.<ref>[http://www.campwalt.com/our-philosophy-history.html Camp Walt Whitman] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428171743/http://www.campwalt.com/our-philosophy-history.html |date=April 28, 2017 }} July 1, 2016.</ref><ref name="NYT CWW">{{cite news |last1=Domius |first1=Susan |title=A Place and an Era in Which Time Could Stand Still |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/15/nyregion/15bigcity.html |access-date=November 20, 2018 |agency= |date=August 14, 2008}}</ref>

A crater on [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] is named for him.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mercury |url=http://wenamethestars.inkleby.com/world/mercury/e/10 |website=We Name the Stars |access-date=October 11, 2020 |archive-date=March 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303213353/http://wenamethestars.inkleby.com/world/mercury/e/10 |url-status=live }}</ref>