"The Linden Oak"

Historical marker location:

Bethesda, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of Grosvenor Lane and Rockville Pike (Maryland Road 355), on the right when traveling north on Grosvenor Lane.)

Marker installed: 1976

- 1976 -.

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.