Historical Marker
The Freight House
Historical marker location:
3711 Maryland Avenue, Ellicott City, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from Maryland Avenue just south of Main Street (Maryland Route 144), on the left when traveling south.)
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.