Historical Marker
Baltimore's Holocaust Memorial
Historical marker location:
520 E Lombard St, Downtown Baltimore, Maryland
( Marker is on East Lombard Street just east of South Gay Street, on the left when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 1997
Dedicated October 6, 1997.
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.