Hunter

Historical marker location:

Hunter, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (New York State Route 23A) and Height Mountain Road (County Route 83), on the left when traveling west on Main Street.)

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.