Frederick's Carroll Creek

Historical marker location:

38 South Market Street, Frederick, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Market Street (Maryland Route 355) north of East All Saints Street, 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.