29th Division Association

Historical marker location:

Bolton Hill, Maryland

( Memorial is at the intersection of Howard Street and Dolphin Street on Howard Street.)

Center Haute Meuse 1917-Sector Alsace Argonne 1919.

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.