Oakland Manor

Historical marker location:

Columbia, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Vantage Point Road, 0.2 miles Little Patuxent Parkway, on the right when traveling south.)

<i>Home of the Howard Dragoons</i>.

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.