World War

Historical marker location:

Prattsville, New York

( Marker is on New York State Route 23, on the left when traveling west.)

Prattsville Honor Roll.

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.