Historical Marker
Sugarloaf Mountain
Historical marker location:
7901 Comus Road, Stronghold, Maryland
( Marker is at the intersection of Comus Road (Maryland Route 95) and Sugarloaf Mountain Road, on the right on Comus Road.)
<i>A Signalmans Lot</i>. Antietam Campaign 1862.
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.