Historical Marker
The Generals Highway
Historical marker location:
601 N Broadway, Dunbar-Broadway, Maryland
( Marker is on North Broadway just south of East Monument Street, on the right when traveling north.)
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.