Historical Marker
The First Reaping Machine
Historical marker location:
Union Bridge, Maryland
( Marker is on Bucher John Street, 0.1 miles east of Good Intent Road, on the right when traveling east.)
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.