Historical Marker
Saint Ignatius' Church
Historical marker location:
8855 Chapel Point Rd, Port Tobacco, Maryland
( Marker is on Chapel Point Road, on the right when traveling west.)
Marker installed: 1949
Saint Thomas' Manor.
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.