Historical Marker
Eutaw Manor
Historical marker location:
3616 Eastwood Dr, Herring Run Park, Maryland
( Marker is on Herring Run Trail, ½ mile Belair Road, on the right when traveling west.)
Herring Run Park.
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.