Historical Marker
Cornerstone from Wesley Chapel
Historical marker location:
9811 Van Buren Lane, Cockeysville, Maryland
( Marker is on Van Buren Lane, 0.1 miles north of Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)
Historical Society of Baltimore County.
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.