First Tannery

Historical marker location:

Stratford, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of New York State Route 29A and Cemetery Road, on the right when traveling west on State Route 29A.)

Marker installed: 1975

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.