First New Jersey Brigade

Historical marker location:

Burkittsville, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Gapland Road and Arnoldstown Road, on the right on Gapland Road.)

Marker installed: 1903

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.