Historical Marker
Handsell
Historical marker location:
4837 Indiantown Rd, Vienna, Maryland
( Marker is on Indiantown Road.)
The Steele Family Homestead. A grand plantation home is destroyed and rebuilt.
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.