Inner Harbor Lofts

Historical marker location:

University of Maryland, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of South Paca Street and West Lombard Street (U.S. 40), on the left when traveling north on South Paca 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.