Historical Marker
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Historical marker location:
Downtown Baltimore, Maryland
( Marker is at the intersection of East Baltimore Street and South Calvert Street on East Baltimore Street.)
Heritage Walk.
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.