Historical Marker
Charles Drew
Historical marker location:
1040 Spring St, Silver Spring, Maryland
( Marker is at the intersection of Spring Street and Cameron Street, on the right when traveling east on Spring Street.)
Biowalk of Fame.
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.