Historical Marker
Tanners Spring
Historical marker location:
Central Park, New York, New York
( Marker can be reached from West 82nd Street east of Central Park West.)
Marker installed: 2020
Seneca Village Landscape.
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.