Historical Marker
CSX Corporation
Historical marker location:
901 West Pratt Street, Washington Village/Pigtown, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from West Pratt Street east of South Schroeder Street, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 1992
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.