Green Bently

Historical marker location:

5617 Highland Avenue, Millport, New York

( Marker is on Highland Avenue (New York State Route 14), on the left when traveling north.)

1741 - 1821.

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.