Historical Marker
Dedicated in Honor
Historical marker location:
Havre de Grace, Maryland
( Memorial is on S. Stokes Street south of Fountain Street, on the left when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 2010
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.