Milestone Park

Historical marker location:

Brooklyn, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of 18th Avenue and 81st Street, on the right when traveling north on 18th Avenue.)

Revolutionary War Heritage Trail.

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.