20th Anniversary

Historical marker location:

209 Oella Avenue, Catonsville, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Oella Avenue, 0.2 miles north of Old Frederick Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2018

[Benjamin Banneker Museum].

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.