Historical Marker

White Store Church

Historical marker location:
New Berlin, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of New York State Route 8 and White Stone Road on State Route 8.)
Marker installed: 1935

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.