Clarkson Academy

Historical marker location:

8343 W Ridge Road, Clarkson, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of West Ridge Road (New York State Route 104) and Lake Road N (New York State Route 19), on the right when traveling east on West Ridge Road.)

Marker installed: 2018

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.