Historical Marker
Transportation and Commerce
Historical marker location:
Rochester, New York
( Marker can be reached from Broad Street (New York State Route 31) ΒΌ mile east of Exchange Street (New York State Route 383).)
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.