Historical Marker
Striking a Blow
Historical marker location:
Perryville, Maryland
( Marker is on Philadelphia Road (Maryland Route 7) 0.2 miles east of Jackson Station Road, on the right when traveling east.)
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail.
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.