Bel Air

Historical marker location:

Bel Air, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Office Street, on the right on Main Street.)

Southern Sympathizers Sought.

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.