Historical Marker
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Historical marker location:
Westport, Maryland
( Marker is on Waterview Avenue, 0 miles west of Annapolis Road (Maryland Route 648), on the right when traveling east.)
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.