Historic Canton

Historical marker location:

Canton, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of O'Donnell Street and Potomac Street, in the median on O'Donnell Street.)

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.