Historical Marker
For All Mankind
Historical marker location:
5904 York Rd, Rosebank, Maryland
( Marker is on York Road (Maryland Route 45) just north of Rosebank Avenue, on the right when traveling south.)
Senator Theatre.
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.