Historical Marker
Bealls Pleasure
Historical marker location:
Landover, Maryland
( Marker is on Bealle Pleasure Road.)
Patented 1706. ¼ mile down the road.
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.