Northampton

Historical marker location:

Scottsville, New York

( Marker is on Main Street (New York State Route 383) 0.2 miles west of Rochester Street (New York State Route 383), on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1938

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.