Historical Marker
Darnestown
Historical marker location:
14211 Darnestown Road, Darnestown, Maryland
( Marker is on Darnestown Road (Maryland Route 28) 0.4 miles west of Seneca Road (Maryland Route 112), on the right when traveling west.)
Confederate Visit. Gettysburg Campaign.
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.