Johnstown

Historical marker location:

116 County Route 19, Livingston, New York

( Marker is on Livingston Circle near Old Post Road (County Route 19), on the left when traveling south.)

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.