World War II

Historical marker location:

Relay, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of S. Rolling Road and Arlington Avenue, on the right when traveling south on S. Rolling Road.)

1941 - 1945. In Freedom's Cause.

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.