Gen. Bradley T. Johnson's Raid

Historical marker location:

1838 Emerald Hill Ln, Westminster, Maryland

( Marker is on Emerald Hill Lane just north of Longwell Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)

A Ransom Cancelled. Early's 1864 Attack on Washington.

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.