Historical Marker
Goucher College Springhouse
Historical marker location:
1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from Goucher Road, 0.6 miles Dulaney Valley Road (Maryland Route 146), on the left when traveling east.)
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.