301 West Main Street

Historical marker location:

301 West Main Street, Middletown, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of West Main Street / Old National Pike (Alternate U.S. 40) and Willow Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street / Old National Pike.)

T.C. Harbaugh Birthplace.

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.