Rev. Patrick Allison

Historical marker location:

509 W Fayette St, University of Maryland, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from West Fayette Street just east of North Greene Street, on the right when traveling east.)

1740 - 1802.

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.