Sand Farm

Historical marker location:

Knox, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Berne-Altamont Road (New York State Route 156) and Farm Lane, on the right when traveling south on Berne-Altamont Road.)

Marker installed: 1959

The first African-American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, studied at the New England Female Medical College in Boston, but she completed her clinical studies at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in Manhattan in 1864.