Pachquiack

Historical marker location:

Leeds, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (County Route 23B) and County Route 47, on the right when traveling west on Main 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.