Home Run Baker Park

Historical marker location:

Trappe, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Main Street (Maryland Route 565) 0.3 miles north of Maple Avenue, on the left when traveling north.)

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.