In Loving Memory

Historical marker location:

225 S Exeter St, Little Italy, Maryland

( Memorial is at the intersection of South Exeter Street and Stiles Street, on the left when traveling south on South Exeter Street.)

John A. Pica, 1924 - 2002 and Antoinette Pellegrini Pica, 1928 - 1988.

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.