Historical Marker
Benning Crab Skiff
Historical marker location:
14200 Solomons Island Road South, Solomons, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from Solomons Island Road South (Maryland Route 2) just south of Thomas Johnson Road, on the left when traveling south.)
16' × 5'3" × 1'8". Flat Bottom.
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.