St. Leo's Veterans Memorial

Historical marker location:

217 South Exeter Street, Little Italy, Maryland

( Memorial is at the intersection of South Exeter Street and Stiles Street on South Exeter 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.