Historical Marker

Frederick Douglass 1815-1895

Historical marker location:
16 East Main Street, Rochester, NY 14614, Rochester, New York
( Marker is on East Main Street, 0.1 miles east of State Street, on the right when traveling west.)

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.