Penfield - 1810

Historical marker location:

1821 Penfield Road, Penfield, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Penfield Road (New York State Route 441) and Five Mile Line Road, on the right when traveling east on Penfield Road.)

Marker installed: 1959

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.