Historical Marker
La Plata Train Museum
Historical marker location:
101 Kent Avenue, La Plata, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from Kent Avenue north of Charles Street (Maryland Route 6), on the left when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2019
Town of La Plata, Maryland.
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.