Historical Marker
Former School
Historical marker location:
6144 Rush-Lima Road, Rush, New York
( Marker is at the intersection of Rush-Lima Road (New York State Route 15A) and Lehigh Street, on the left when traveling east on Rush-Lima Road.)
Marker installed: 2017
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.