Hager Mill

Historical marker location:

288 Mill Street, Hagerstown, Maryland

( Marker is on Mill Street east of Frederick Street (Alternate U.S. 40), on the right when traveling east.)

Heart of the Civil War Heritage Area.

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.