Historical Marker
Washington Seminary
Historical marker location:
60 New York 9H, Claverack, New York
( Marker is on New York State Route 9H north of Maple Avenue, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1959
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.