National Register Listing

Koons, Jacob, Farm

a.k.a. CARR-113

1151 Otterdale Mill Rd., Taneytown, MD
Local significance of the building:
Architecture; Agriculture

Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
About National Register Listings

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.

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.