Historical Marker
Liberty Tree
Historical marker location:
66 State Circle, Annapolis, Maryland
( Memorial is on State Circle north of East Street, on the left when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2017
<i>Tulip Poplar</i>.
Maryland was home to the first African American woman to hold a patent: In 1885, Sarah E. Goode, an African American woman from Baltimore, became the first African American woman to hold a U.S. patent. Her invention was a folding cabinet bed, which was designed to save space in small apartments.