The River Town

Historical marker location:

14 South Main Street, Port Deposit, Maryland

( Marker is on South Main Street (Route 222) just south of Jacob Tome Memorial Highway (Maryland Route 276), on the right when traveling north. Reported unreadable.)

Historic Port Deposit.

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.