Hooper Straight Light's Twin

Historical marker location:

100 Douglas Lane, St. Michaels, Maryland

( Marker is on Mill Street just east of Burns Street, on the right when traveling east.)

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.