Sept. 11, 1814

Historical marker location:

1717 Lake Shore Road, Chazy, New York

( Marker is on Lake Shore Road north of Miner Farm Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2011

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.