Historical Marker
What Happened Here?
Historical marker location:
1800 Glenallen Avenue, Wheaton, Maryland
( Marker can be reached from Glenallan Avenue east of Heurich Road, on the right when traveling east.)
Brookside Gardens.
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.