Historical Marker
Forced Migration
Historical marker location:
18524 Brooke Rd, Sandy Spring, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from Brooke Road, 0.1 miles west of Chandlee Mill Road, on the right when traveling west.)
[Sandy Spring Slave Museum & African Art Gallery].
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.