Historical Marker
Record Store Day
Historical marker location:
1616 Thames Street, Fells Point, Maryland
( Marker is on Thames Street east of South Bond Street, on the right when traveling west.)
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.