Victorian Cages

Historical marker location:

1876 Mansion House Dr, Druid Hill Park, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Safari Place, 0.2 miles north of Beechwood Drive, on the right when traveling north.)

Historic Maryland Zoo.

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.