Byron Museum

Historical marker location:

Byron, New York

( Marker is on Townline Road (New York State Route 262) 0.1 miles west of Swamp Road, on the left when traveling east.)

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.