Historical Marker
First Schoolhouse
Historical marker location:
13 Church Ave, Germantown, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Church Avenue (County Route 33) and Amber Lane, on the right when traveling north on Church Avenue.)
Marker installed: 1932
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.