Historical Marker
1776-1796
Historical marker location:
203 Lake Street, Elmira, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Lake Street and East Market Street, on the right when traveling north on Lake Street.)
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.