Veterans Plaza

Historical marker location:

1 Veterans Place, Silver Spring, Maryland

( Memorial is at the intersection of Ellsworth Drive and Fenton Street, on the right when traveling north on Ellsworth Drive.)

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.