Old Chatham

Historical marker location:

Old Chatham, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Albany Turnpike and County Route 13, on the left when traveling east on Albany Turnpike.)

Marker installed: 1971

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.