Historical Marker
To The Memory
Historical marker location:
Stafford, New York
( Memorial can be reached from Transit Road, 0.3 miles south of Main Street (New York State Route 5), on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1868
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.