Historic Points

Historical marker location:

Queenstown, Maryland

( Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 50 and Carmichael Road, on the right when traveling east on U.S. 50.)

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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.