Historical Marker
In Bad Taste
Historical marker location:
5906 York Rd, Rosebank, Maryland
( Marker is on York Road (Maryland Route 45) just south of Mix Court, on the right when traveling south.)
[Senator Theatre].
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.