Historical Marker
Walter Reed Monument
Historical marker location:
8901 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland
( Marker is on Palmer Road North, 0.2 miles east of Wood Road, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 2013
Healing Plaza. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
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.