Historical Marker
The Wye Grist Mill
Historical marker location:
900 Wye Mills Road, Wye Mills, Maryland
( Marker is on Wye Mills Road (Maryland Route 662) north of Queen Anne Highway (Maryland Route 404), on the left when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 2000
circa 1682.
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.