Historical Marker
The Gate House
Historical marker location:
7273 Cooper Drive, Sykesville, Maryland
( Marker is on Cooper Drive north of Warfield Road, on the right when traveling north.)
Historic Portal to Springfield State Hospital.
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.