Historical Marker
Constitution Ratification Site
Historical marker location:
10 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Market Street and Main Street, on the left when traveling north on Market Street.)
Marker installed: 1904
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.