Historical Marker

Commodore Joshua Barney

Historical marker location:
Dundalk, Maryland
( Marker is at the intersection of Wise Avenue and Inverness Ave., on the left when traveling south on Wise Avenue.)

1759–1818.

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.
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