Historical Marker
Under Attack
Historical marker location:
Havre de Grace, Maryland
( Marker is on N. Union Avenue.)
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
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.