William Marston Hogue, PhD

Historical marker location:

581 S. Maryland Avenue, North East, Maryland

( Marker is on South Maryland Avenue near Irishtown Road, on the right when traveling east.)

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.