Historical Marker
Remington
Historical marker location:
2722 Remington Avenue, Remington, Maryland
( Marker is on Remington Avenue just south of West 28th Street, on the right when traveling south.)
Baltimore.
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.