Iconic Chesapeake Light

Historical marker location:

213 North Talbot Street, St. Michaels, Maryland

( Marker is on Mill Street 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.