Historical Marker
Methodist Church
Historical marker location:
8 Chapel Street, Elba, New York
( Marker is on Chapel Street, 0.1 miles east of South Main Street (New York State Route 98).)
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.