Lee Jordan Field

Historical marker location:

Takoma Park, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Piney Branch Road.)

Marker installed: 2014

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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.