Historical Marker
Old Post Road
Historical marker location:
Elkton, Maryland
( Marker is on Maryland Route 281, 0.3 miles east of Delancy Road, on the right when traveling east.)
Established 1666.
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.