Whose House Was This?

Historical marker location:

11410 Old Georgetown Rd, North Bethesda, Maryland

( Marker is on Old Georgetown Road (Maryland Route 187) 0.1 miles south of Tilden Lane, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2021

architecture houses residential buildings

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.