Safeway

Historical marker location:

11215 Georgia Avenue, Wheaton, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Fern Street and Reedie Drive, on the left when traveling north on Fern Street.)

Serving Wheaton Since 1951.

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.