Seneca Stone Barn

Historical marker location:

Beallsville, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Wasche Road, 0.3 miles north of Farm Road Trail, on the right when traveling north.)

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.