Historical Marker
Alexandroffsky
Historical marker location:
760 W Baltimore St, Hollins Market, Maryland
( Marker is on West Baltimore Street just west of South Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, 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.