The Sandy Spring Ash Tree

Historical marker location:

Sandy Spring, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Auburn Village Drive, 0.4 miles south of Olney Sandy Spring Road (State Route 108), on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2006

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.