Historic Site

Historical marker location:

Dickerson, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Mount Ephraim Road (Maryland Route 170) and Dickerson Road (Maryland Highway 28), on the right when traveling east on Mount Ephraim Road.)

[B&O Railroad Station].

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.