General Edward Braddock

Historical marker location:

201 South Frederick Avenue, Gaithersburg, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of South Frederick Avenue (Maryland Route 355) and South Summit Avenue on South Frederick Avenue.)

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.