Baptist Colony

Historical marker location:

941 West Rush Road, Rush, New York

( Marker is on West Rush Road (County Route 65) 0.1 miles west of Stoney Brook Road, on the left when traveling west.)

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.