Historical Marker
Northrup House
Historical marker location:
32 South Washington Street, Athens, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of South Washington Street and Fourth Street, on the right when traveling south on South Washington Street.)
Marker installed: 1932
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.