Historical Marker
Harry Gilmor's Raid
Historical marker location:
Jerusalem Mills, Maryland
( Marker is on Jerusalem Road, on the left when traveling east.)
"Great excitement in... Harford County," July 11, 1864.
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.