Behind the Big House

Historical marker location:

535 Hampton Lane, Towson, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Hampton Lane, 0.2 miles east of Hampton Garth, on the right when traveling east.)

Domestic Service Buildings. Hampton National Historic Site, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

architecture houses residential buildings

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.