Historical Marker
Baltimore must be tamed
Historical marker location:
Fells Point, Maryland
( Memorial is on Broadway.)
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail. War of 1812.
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.