Snow's Battery

Historical marker location:

Port Deposit, Maryland

( Marker is on South Main Street (Maryland Route 222) south of High Street (Route 276), on the left when traveling north.)

Battery B, 1st Maryland Light Artillery.

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.