Thomas Wildey Monument

Historical marker location:

123 N Broadway, Washington Hill, Maryland

( Marker is on North Broadway, 0.1 miles Fayette Street, in the median.)

Marker installed: 1865

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.