War on Terror Memorial

Historical marker location:

6330 Crain Highway, La Plata, Maryland

( Memorial is on Crain Highway (U.S. 301) south of Hawthorne Road, on the right when traveling north.)

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.