Historical Marker
Deaf Education
Historical marker location:
1545 St. Paul Street, Rochester, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of St. Paul Street and Saranac Street, on the left when traveling north on St. Paul Street.)
Marker installed: 2019
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.