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Historical marker location:
810 Wiseburg Rd, White Hall, Maryland
( Memorial is on Wiseburg Road, 0.1 miles west of Bernoudy Road, on the right when traveling west.)

[Veterans Memorial].

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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