Carroll Hall / President's House / Levine Hall / Baker Chapel / Alumni Hall / Ward Memorial Arch

Historical marker location:

2 College Hill, Westminster, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Hersh Avenue and West Main Street, on the right when traveling north on Hersh Avenue.)

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.