Harford Town

Historical marker location:

Abingdon, Maryland

( Marker is on Philadelphia Road (Maryland Route 7) 0.8 miles south of Maryland Route 136, on the right when traveling south.)

or Bush.

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.