Historical Marker
Kensington Cabin
Historical marker location:
10000 Kensington Parkway, Kensington, Maryland
( Marker is on Kensington Parkway, on the right when traveling south.)
It Takes a Community. Â…The oldest Commission-constructed park activity in Montgomery County.
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.