Historical Marker
St. Augustines Church
Historical marker location:
Chesapeake City, Maryland
( Marker is at the intersection of Cayots Corner Road (Maryland Route 310) and St. Augustine Road North (Maryland Route 342), on the right when traveling east on Cayots Corner Road.)
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.