Clod-Crushers / Harrows / Plows

Historical marker location:

500 S Center St, Westminster, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Farm Museum Road, 0.2 miles south of South Center Street, on the right when traveling south.)

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.