Historical Marker
Honor Roll
Historical marker location:
1522 East Fort Avenue, Locust Point, Maryland
( Memorial is on East Fort Avenue just east of Cooksie Street, on the right when traveling west.)
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.