Historical Marker
Waugh Avenue
Historical marker location:
57 57th Avenue, Berwyn Heights, Maryland
( Marker is on Berwyn Road east of 57th Avenue, on the left when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 2015
Historic Berwyn Heights. Town of Berwyn Heights, Maryland.
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.