Historical Marker
1723 Lancaster Street
Historical marker location:
1723 Lancaster Street, Fells Point, Maryland
( Marker is on Lancaster Street just east of South Regester Street, on the left when traveling west.)
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.