Thor, Pilothouse

Historical marker location:

213 North Talbot Street, St. Michaels, Maryland

( Marker can be reached from Mill Street east of Burns Street, on the left 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.