Historical Marker
Dreaded Alarm
Historical marker location:
8400 Old Bay Shore Rd, Edgemere, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from Old Bay Shore Road, 1.7 miles south of North Point Road, on the right when traveling south.)
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
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.