Historical Marker
Tudor Hall
Historical marker location:
41680 Tudor Place, Leonardtown, Maryland
( Memorial can be reached from Tudor Place just east of Camalier Drive when traveling east.)
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.