Freedom's Figurehead

Historical marker location:

304 Mill Street, St. Michaels, Maryland

( Marker is on Cherry Street just west of Burns Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.

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.