Historical Marker
Abisado
Historical marker location:
400 Washington Avenue, Towson, Maryland
( Memorial is on Washington Avenue, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1903
The Court House Cannon.
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.