Brooklyn-Curtis Bay Veterans

Historical marker location:

Curtis Bay, Maryland

( Memorial is at the intersection of Church Street (Maryland Route 171) and Fairhaven Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Church Street.)

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.