Historical Marker
The Joppa Road
Historical marker location:
Towson, Maryland
( Marker is at the intersection of Joppa Road and Edgeclift Road, in the median on Joppa Road.)
Marker installed: 1934
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.